Re: Keyboard support for user agent functionalities for Netscape products for Windows, UNIX and Macintosh

the biggest problem I had with it is closing it.  don't forget to
toggle the link tracking type with shift+ctrl+t
"Gregory J. Rosmaita" wrote:
> 
> aloha, jon!
> 
> one thing that wasn't addressed in keren's otherwise excellent report was
> keyboard accessibility of the NetHelp (Netscape Help) system...
> 
> i'm using Navigator 4.08, and i can't actually get to the links contained
> within help pages using the keyboard (at least not by using the TAB key) -- i
> can, however, move through the items listed in the "Content Frame" (as JFW
> announced the frame), but can only activate them by routing the JAWS cursor to
> the PC cursor and double-clicking on the link using JFW's left mouse emulation
> key (pressing ENTER does nothing, as far as i can tell)
> 
> sometimes, when cycling through the "Content Frame" using the TAB key, i am
> taken from the last link in the "Content Frame" to the first graphical link in
> the "Header Frame", in which there are several unlabeled graphics, but
> sometimes, i just cycle back through the "Contents Frame"
> 
> as for the help itself, i have to move to that area of the screen with the JAWS
> (speech) cursor, and review the contents of the help file line by line, as JFW
> cannot read the contents of the help file using the standard
> read-to-end-of-document command...
> 
> when the report stabilizes, would it be possible to generate a non-table-ized
> (linear) version?  if this is too much to ask your student, i would gladly
> volunteer to transform the finalized table to a linearized list -- something
> which a great many people would find quite useful...
> 
> gregory.
> 
> At 01:59 PM 11/2/99 -0600, Jon wrote:
> >Keren Moses, a graduate assistant here at UIUC, put together an initial
> >table of important keyboard functionalities for Netscape navigator for
> >Windows, UNIX and the Macintosh products.  I would like to continue to
> >develop this resource for use by Lakespur and the techniques document.
> >Please review and comment on the accuracy of the information and other
> >important keyboard support that we would recommend to Lakespur and can use
> >in the UA techniques document.
> >
> >http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/netscape-keyboard.html
> >
> >One important issues is that in the UNIX and Macintosh versions, Keren only
> >observed that the TAB key moved the focus between text edit boxes, no other
> >active elements could be accessed via the keyboard.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Jon
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> He that lives on Hope, dies farting
>      -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1763
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> Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
>    WebMaster and Minister of Propaganda, VICUG NYC
>         <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/index.html>
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