Response to your comments on WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide

Dear Takahiro Inada:

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Comment 362: How to shift the key focus between blocks that contain many UI elements in web applications?
Date: 2012-02-21
Archived at: UNSET
Relates to: WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide - 4. Supporting Keyboard Navigation <http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20120110/#keyboard-focus>
Status: Alternate action taken

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Your comment:
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Hello WG members,
I often design multifunctional web applications at work. We think all users
should be able to quickly reach the item that they want to use. So, users
who operate with only keyboard like screen reader users should be able to
shift the key focus between blocks that contain many UI elements in web
applications. Because, web applications have so many UI elements and,
Shortcut keys cannot provide screen reader users with the benefits of GUIs.
But, it seems  that there are no specifications for this purpose.

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Response from the Working Group:
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Thank you for pointing this out. We have a plan to write a section in the
Authoring Practices for how to shift the key focus between blocks in
script, which we expect to be different from your recommended solution in
specifics, in order to remain compatible with our other keyboard
recommendations, but meeting the general situation you raised. We will also
write a section in the User Agent Implementation Guide to describe a
structural navigation model for ARIA landmarks. We have actions 966 and 967
to track this and plan to complete this by September 2012.

Received on Wednesday, 15 August 2012 19:45:03 UTC