Re: Mapping for aria-keyshortcuts in AXAPI?

Hey Chris.

On 06/28/2016 05:58 PM, cfleizach@apple.com wrote:

> There is no Alt key on MacOS to begin with, so having authors specify an Alt key is going to cause problems

The spec [1] currently states, "Note that Meta corresponds to the
Command key on Apple computers." So we presumably need a similar
statement for Alt, which seems to correspond to the Option key.

I admittedly know very little about input events in WebKit, but a quick
grep through the Layout Tests revealed a you have a platform test
(mac/selection-boundary-userinfo.html) which is synthesizing
altKey+leftArrow and altKey+rightArrow to move by word. So is the main
problem ensuring authors know that "Alt" means "Option"? Or is there a
technical issue we need to resolve?

Thank you for alerting us to this!
--joanie

[1] https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/aria.html#aria-keyshortcuts

Received on Tuesday, 28 June 2016 22:24:45 UTC