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

No worries Jon … hope I didn’t come across as harsh. I apologize if so.

 

From: Gunderson, Jon R [mailto:jongund@illinois.edu] 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 10:30 AM
To: Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>; 'Steve Faulkner' <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>; '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

 

Sorry for all the confusion I created on this issue.

 

Elements with Button role are activated on ENTER and SPACE, checkbox only changes state on SPACE.

 

Jon

 

 

From: Matt King [mailto:a11ythinker@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 11:45 AM
To: 'Steve Faulkner' <faulkner.steve@gmail.com <mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com> >; 'Joseph Scheuhammer' <clown@alum.mit.edu <mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu> >
Cc: 'ARIA Working Group' <public-aria@w3.org <mailto:public-aria@w3.org> >
Subject: 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 <mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu> >
Cc: ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org <mailto: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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