Re: [jlreq] Cursor movement in vertical text (#462)

@acli: I don't understand what you mean by "This is like alt all over again (where sighted and blind users also have opposite needs and the W3C settled on privileging blind users)." The alt attribute on <img> was introduced to help visually impaired users. Sighted users don't really use the alt attribute.

@xfq: It should be possible to have screen readers announce the text direction. But it should also be possible for screen readers to flip the meaning of the cursor keys so that they work as @murata2makoto suggests.

@acli: You wrote: "I understand what Webkit is doing, but as a user, I’d rather the cursor keys moved the cursor in the same direction as the key caps show; there’s just too much cognitive dissonance otherwise.". This definitely seems to make sense, but there may be a difference between people mostly typing blindly (without really looking at the keyboard) and people who look at the keyboard. And then there are the people who do one thing some times and the other other times.

@murata2makoto: I agree that personal preferences are important. But then again, for seeing people in particular, one and the same person may want to move through a document in a logical way one instant, and in a visual way the other instant.


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