- From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:50:43 +0100
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 15:52 +0100, Diogo Resende wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 11:28 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > Double-click can only be performed by people using a mouse. What about > > people suffering RSI who might prefer to use a keyboard? Have you ever > > tried to navigate one of those file dialogues without using a mouse? I > > have, and it's a pain in the posterior. But, it does mean that there > > are further problems to allowing the existing dialogue to just handle > > directories as if they were files. > > I use it everyday. It's not a pain, you just need to know how to use > ctrl/shift/alt+tab/arrows. But that's not the point. You just gave a > reason not to use the dialog at all. Do you want to ignore the > possibility of drag&drop too? When I don't have a mouse, I use lynx. > > I done software in the past for people with disabilities and is not > easy. For those people I would not even consider a FileDialog as it is. > I'm just saying that the existing dialogue can't *simply* be converted, and a different dialogue might be better. To the end user, it can behave pretty much the same way, but the UA will be able to treat it differently. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100407/a2d31905/attachment.htm>
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