- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:09:44 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Lakespur Roca <lake@netscape.com>
- cc: Accesability list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
As a linux Netscape user there are a number of areas where improvement is needed. The first is the ablity to tab consistently between active elements. The second is the ability to fire mouseover, mouseout, click, etc events from teh keyboard consistently. (The Last Call Working Draft of DOM at http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-DOM-Level-2 introduces a new event model, and extensive discussion of this has taken place in the DOM and WAI Protocols and Formats Groups, as well as some in the User Agent Group and others, over the last year) The third is the ability to use the menus from the keyboard - Although teh features for which shortcuts are defined work alright (unless they conflict with key bindings in my X setup - unfortunately I have not figured out how to change them, so I have to change my own setup instead). The fourth would be the ability to select text using the keyboard standards for the platform. (Actually some of these functions, but not the event triggers, are already implemented in Composer, making it much nicer to use as a keyboard-accessible browser). I like the fact that I can scroll up or down with the keyboard at any time, and don't have to wait for the page to have loaded. If there was decent screen-reader integration to a Netscape browser it would be good to have the ability to navigate around the page generally - not just to the bottom of a table, but within the table, up and down by cells. Regards Charles McCN On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Lakespur Roca wrote: I didn't get a response to my inquiry earlier so I thought I'd try again but being more specific. Netscape is working as we speak on a new browser. I have the responsibility of finding where the keyboard navigation through a web page can be fixed or improved. What I would like to know from you is are there specific areas where keyboard navigation through a page can be improved or breaks. Do you want a to skip to the bottom of a table? Are the methods of visually showing what has focus easy to see? Does tabbing through the items in a page work for you? What do you think about Shift+Tab to "Tab" backwards through a page? Is there something that works real well that you don't want touched? These are the kinds of things I would like to know. Lake Roca Usability Engineer Netscape communications --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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