- From: David Bolter <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:37:13 -0400
- To: Becky Gibson <Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com>
- CC: wai-xtech@w3.org
As long as disabled ui elements are discoverable via per application scripting or otherwise (perhaps a FF add on), then I don't see a problem with this; in fact I think consistency is preferable. cheers, David Becky Gibson wrote: > 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 > > IBM Emerging Internet Technologies > 5 Technology Park Drive > Westford, MA 01886 > Voice: 978 399-6101; t/l 333-6101 > Email: gibsonb@us.ibm.com > blog: WebA11y > > > >
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