Re: UAAG2 Guideline 4.1 Level A Only (following 3 April 2008 Call)

We had a big discussion about this in the ITTac.
"available. The only exception is for underlying functions that depend on
the path of the user's movement and not just the endpoints (e.g., drawing)." 
Suffice it to say that I take exception with the exception.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Richards" <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
To: "WAI-UA list" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 4:08 PM
Subject: UAAG2 Guideline 4.1 Level A Only (following 3 April 2008 Call)



The other thing we were doing on the 3 April 2008 UAWG call was looking
at the Level A requirements of 4.1. I made some notes from the
discussion and have tried to turn them into a proposal that also
attempts to bring in the requirements for "visual indicators":

ORIGINAL Wording:
http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG20/#principle-operable

NEW Wording Ideas:

Level A Success Criteria for Guideline 4.1

4.1.1 Keyboard Operation: All functionality can be *operated via the
keyboard*, even if pointing device-only modes of operation are also
available. The only exception is for underlying functions that depend on
the path of the user's movement and not just the endpoints (e.g., drawing).

4.1.2 Keystroke Precedence: The precedence of keystroke processing is
documented (e.g., user agent interface, then user agent extensions, then
content features administered by the user agent such as accesskey, and
then executable content).

4.1.3 No Keyboard Trap: When the content display has focus, a standard
keyboard command is always available that can "back out" the focus by
one level in the content hierarchy. From the top level of the hierarchy,
this command moves focus to the user agent's chrome (e.g., the address
bar).

4.1.4 Caret Text Navigation: Views that render text also support the
standard text area conventions for the platform (e.g., "arrow" key
navigation, shift-to-select mechanism).

4.1.5 Indicating Direct Keyboard Command (Chrome): A mode is provided in
which any *direct keyboard commands* associated with the currently
displayed controls in the user agent chrome are indicated:
(a) visually at the location of the control (e.g. with an accesskey
underlined, with an overlay), and
(b) centrally in a programmatically available fashion (e.g., the menu
system).

4.1.6 Indicating Direct Keyboard Command (Content Display): A mode is
provided in which any *direct keyboard commands* associated with the
currently displayed controls in the content display are indicated:
(a) visually at the location of the control (e.g. with an overlay), and
(b) centrally in a programmatically available fashion (e.g., a list of
accesskeys).




NOTES:

4.1.4 Separate Activation: REMOVED -DUPLICATES 3.12.11

4.1.7 "Chrome" Navigation: REMOVED - IMPLICIT IN 4.1.1




Cheers,
Jan

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