RE: Issues with supporting "enter" key for activation of buttons in APG examples

Jon,

 

The discussion was about issue 233, which is about checkbox, not button. 

https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/issues/233

 

The APG says buttons work with both enter and space. We have not changed that, and there has not been any discussion about doing so … with the exception of this thread.

 

Based on long-standing native button conventions, I do not think we should change the guidance for buttons.

 

Matt

From: Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 9:01 AM
To: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Issues with supporting "enter" key for activation of buttons in APG examples

 

 

On 27 January 2017 at 16:54, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu <mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu> > wrote:

I experimented with a <button>
element using FF and Safari on a Mac, and it did *not* respond to ENTER
when it had focus; only SPACE.

 

the mac and windows behaviours are different, this does not mean we should restrict to mac.




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SteveF

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