- From: Denis Anson <danson@miseri.edu>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:25:23 -0800
- To: "Aaron Leventhal" <aaronl@netscape.com>, <w3c-wai-ui@w3.org>
Aaron, This gets back to the concept of "point of regard." Current browser technology generally doesn't have a separate pointer for focus and point of regard, which can be a signficant shortcoming. The ability to navigate through a page with a lot of content between links requires some pointer, other than focus, to indicate current location. Moving a "point-of-regard" indicator to an element wouldn't activate any events, since it isn't the same as the mouse or the focus. Denis Anson -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Aaron Leventhal Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 6:25 PM To: w3c-wai-ui@w3.org Subject: Navigation without side-effects Apologies for all the emails, I'm going through my meeting notes .... At the meeting we discussed a feature for being able to navigate without setting off any event handlers. This means users would need to be able to move to a new element without the focus going to that element. I was told this is probably only useful for blind users. I can only assume that the last focused element would still be visible from the CSS :focus pseudo class style binding. Would it not be necessary to make the element that you'ved moved to, but isn't focused, visible? I don't remember what we call that, but there's not CSS concept for it, so I'm not sure how we'd allow the user to configure the appearance of it. In addition you'd have the confusion of 2 different elements with a different visual indications of having the user's attention. Thoughts? Aaron
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