Re: Repair of Pointer Based Events

Response in JRG to CMN:

>[snip]
>   The reasons for reducing the requirement for active elements:
>   1. We do not have any implementation experience for this feature.
>
>MouseKeys implements this feature. The only bit it does not commonly provide
>is the abilitry  to move the mouse cursor to a point that has been reached by
>keyboard navigation (which isn't explicitly required by the feature - it is
>just a technique that leverages the fact that mousekeys is readily available
>on common platforms such as linux, MacOS, Windows)

JRG: Would you consider mouse keys to be an acceptable part of a solution 
to this repair function?


Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
MC-574
College of Applied Life Studies
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
WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua

Received on Friday, 9 February 2001 17:50:24 UTC