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Re: Keyboard Behaviors for Elements with Role "Grid"

From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:07:00 -0400
Message-ID: <488F6A54.8090608@utoronto.ca>
To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
CC: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>

>
>
>     Shift + Down Arrow to "interact with" a sub-level item.
>     Shift + Up Arrow to "stop interacting with" a sub-level item.
>
>     Shift + Right Arrow to navigate to the next non-read-only 
> item/cell in the list/grid.
>     Shift + Left Arrow to navigate to the previous non-read-only 
> item/cell in the list/grid.
> ...
> The only place I can see where this would cause trouble is with text 
> selection using arrow keys, ...

One might also want to shift+arrow for extending a selection of cells 
using the keyboard.

Actually, there doesn't appear to be anything about selection for grids 
in the style guide, but ARIA does talk about a multiselectable state for 
grids:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#grid

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