Re: W3C User Agent Teleconference for 3 November 2005

Aaron,
I would also add a 4 type of navigation, which is probably
part of 3, which includes major and minor topics and
navigation bars, ec..

Jon


---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:07:30 +0100
>From: Aaron Leventhal <aaronlev@moonset.net>  
>Subject: Re: W3C User Agent Teleconference for 3 November 2005  
>To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
>Cc: jimallan@tsbvi.edu, WAI-UA <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
>
>
>
>> An alternative would be to define, in format
specifications, that 
>> anything that has intereaction behaviour (an event
listener, or a 
>> default interactivity), should be focusable.
>Isn't there a problem that an event handler may be on the
container for 
>something so that it can listen to the event on any
descendant? It just 
>uses event.target in the script to see where the event
happened. We also 
>have the problem that there are no descriptions for XML event
handlers, 
>so even if a user can get there, how will they know what these 
>programmatic event names mean?
>
>To help the discussion, here are 3 kinds of navigation we
need to 
>support in every kind of web content:
>
>1. Simple controls are in tab order
>- Examples: checkbox, slider
>
>2. Container controls group focusable children
>- Examples: trees, lists, radio groups, spreadsheets
>- The last focused child is in the tab order
>- Other children can be focused via the pointer
>- Key navigation managed by the container widget (often arrows)
>
>3. Non-interactive content won’t take input
>- Examples: progress meter, alerts, doc structural elements
>- Click to focus skips, goes up parent chain for focus
>- On screen keyboards don’t list them as choices
>- Screen readers skip them in navigation order
>- Voice input skips them during “say what you see” vocab buildup
>
>


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