Re: [STYLE GUIDE] Modified menu proposal

Becky,

But don't people using screen readers need to know about menu items that are disabled?

Jon

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:32:48 -0400
>From: "Becky Gibson" <Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com>  
>Subject: [STYLE GUIDE] Modified menu proposal  
>To: wai-xtech@w3.org
>
>
>The proposal for navigation of menus and menubars is documented in the PF 
>Wiki [1].  I don't believe that menu behavior has been finalized, thus, I 
>would like to propose a modification to the behavior described. 
>Specifically I propose that, in order to match the behavior for disabled 
>buttons, disabled menu items do NOT receive focus.  This is consistent 
>with how the Macintosh treats menu items and buttons but is different than 
>Windows.  I think it makes sense for widget focus to behave consistently 
>within Web Applications hosted within the browser. 
>
>The Dojo Open Source widget tookit is planning to implement a consistent 
>focus behavior for the widgets.  Disabled buttons will not receive focus, 
>disabled buttons within a toolbar will not receive focus, and disabled 
>menu items will not receive focus.  However, we would appreciate feedback 
>from this group.
>
>thanks,
>-becky
>
>
>
>[1] http://esw.w3.org/topic/MenuWidget
>
>Becky Gibson
>Web Accessibility Architect
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology (DRES)

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