- From: Jeanne Spellman <jeanne@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 12:56:42 -0400
- To: User Agent Working Group <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
I've been looking at Greg's work in a lot of detail as I have been attempting to update the document with the re-organization of Focus guidelines and SC. I am concerned that we have lost an important feature in the change - persistence of keyboard re-mapping. Greg's new 2.1.4 (see http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/work/wiki/Keyboard,_Focus,_and_Navigation_Restructuring#2.1.3Y_Keyboard_Navigability_.5Bformer_1.9.2.2C_before_that_3.11.2.2C_and_1.9.4.2C_before_that_3.11.4.2C_significant_changes.5D) Previous complete version (there were partial changes in the 19 May version which is confusing, so I went back to the 28 April version) http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2011/ED-UAAG20-20110428/#gl-keyboard-access In the 28 April version we had 2.1.2 Specify preferred keystrokes 2.1.10 Override of UI Keyboard Commands 2.1.11 User Override of Accesskeys 2.1.12 Specify preferred keystrokes - (a duplicate of 2.1.2) deleted. The difference between the 3 (to my memory) is that 2.1.2 was a generic statement at level A which did not require any persistence. 2.1.10 and 2.1.11 differ by UI vs. content, and require persistence. Because the techniques are so different between saving accesskeys and saving UI command, they were split into separate SC. In Greg's draft, we lose the entire requirement for persistence -- at least as far as I have read. I had to go back to 2010 June 17 version to find the original text for 2.1.2 and 2.1.12. 2.1.2 used to be about precedence in keyboard commands: http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-UAAG20-20100617/#principle-operable 4.1.2 Keystroke Precedence: The user has the option to specify that keystrokes be processed in the following order: user agent user interface, user agent extensions, content keystroke operations administered by the user agent (e.g., access keys), and executable content (e.g., key press events in scripts, etc.). (Level A) Sometime between June and December, 2.1.2 was changed to the text of 2.1.12 and 2.1.12 was dropped. I vaguely remember that we agreed to drop precedence in favor of giving greater user control. Since this could be an editor error (mine), I am bringing attention to it, not to restart the debate, but to insure that the correct edits were done.
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