- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:44:17 -0400 (EDT)
- To: thatch@us.ibm.com
- cc: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Sound like you have captured it very well. My understanding is that the current view needs to be made clear by some kind of highlighting mechanism (for example being the only thing visible, or being the thing that responds when you ask for the title of the current view), and that this needs to be exposed through an API to assistive technologies. So long as the system caret is clearly identifiable I think your first technique satisfies the checkpoint. I think the second one might, but this is also a case where using system conventions is important - for example in enlightenment and afterstep, the window managers i use, there is a title bar for each window. The current view (active window) has a blue title bar and others have a grey or brown one (depending on which window manager i am using. I also have my setup ensure that the current view is always on top (this is an option in the window manager, but makes life easier as a user). Charles McCN On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 thatch@us.ibm.com wrote: Here's 9.1 for reference again: 9.1 Provide a mechanism for highlighting and identifying (through a standard interface where available) the current view, selection, and focus. Is the following a fairly faithful representation of the intent in, say, a Windows environment? Ensure that the user can detect which/what is the current view, the current selection in that view and the focus. Expose the current view, selection, and focus to assistive technology. In your wording, is it "highlighting the current view and identifying the current view through an API for assistive technology?" or is it "highlighting and identifying the current view through an API for assistive technology? If I have three views/frames/windows in a row, and the current view always contains the system caret and I can't select anything, is checkpoint 9.1 satisfied? Instead of the system caret, what I change the border of the current view to yellow (changeable, of course)? Jim Thatcher IBM Special Needs Systems www.ibm.com/sns thatch@us.ibm.com (512)838-0432 Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu> on 08/18/99 12:04:25 PM To: James Thatcher/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org cc: Subject: Re: checkpoint 9.1 Jim, This is an orientation checkpoint for orienting the user to the organization of a document or a set of documents if frames are being used. The user needs to know which document in a set of frames currently has the focus, which control or link in the document has the focus and if there is any seleted elements in the document. We need to have better links to the definitions for each checkpoints. It will certainly help to improve the techniques document, so that examples are available for implementation of the checkpoint. We are moving our attention to the techniqes document. Jon At 09:07 PM 8/17/99 -0500, thatch@us.ibm.com wrote: > > >Resent with subject!! > >I'm now looking at 9.1 which is: > >Provide a mechanism for highlighting and identifying (through a standard >interface where available) the current view, selection, and focus. > > I don't know what this means either. The techniques link is broken. Searching >for 9.1 in the guideline I found: > >3.6.6 Frames >Checkpoints in this section: 9.1. > >And 9.1 doesn't seem to talk about frames. > >What does it mean to highlight and identify the current view, selection or >focus? > >Jim Thatcher >IBM Special Needs Systems >www.ibm.com/sns >thatch@us.ibm.com >(512)838-0432 > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess --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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