- From: Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 12:11:08 -0600
- To: WAI-ua <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
merge of 213 and 222 no change for Summary of GL 22 New Summary of gl 2.1 Summary: Users can operate all functions (2.1.1), and move focus (2.1.2) using just the keyboard. Users can activate important or common features with shortcut keys, (2.1.8), override keyboard shortcuts in content and user interface (2.1.4), escape keyboard traps (2.1.5), specify that selecting an item in a dropdown list or menuoes not activate that item or move to that new web page (2.1.6) and use standard keys for that platform (2.1.7).@@removed 2.1.3...just the numerals no words removed. merge of 213 and 222 2.2.2 Sequential Navigation Between Viewports [new]: The user can move the keyboard focus backwards and forwards between viewports, without having to sequentially navigate all the elements in a viewport. (Level A) Intent of Success Criterion 2.2.2: It is important for the user to be able to jump directly to the next or previous viewports without having to visit every element in a viewport on the way to the next viewport, because that can add an exorbitant number of navigation commands to operations that should be both easy and efficient. User need keyboard access to all viewports and all enabled elements so that they can manipulate them, view them with screen magnifiers, or have them described by screen readers. The ability to move both forward and backward through the navigation order greatly reduces the number of keystrokes and allows the user to more easily recover from mistakes in overshooting a destination. @@This navigation can be between viewports within the application, or between windows or applications. This includes the user agent's user interface, extensions to the user interface (e.g. add-on), content, and plug-ins handling content. @@added from 213@@ Examples of Success Criterion 2.2.2: o Sooj cannot use a pointing device, so she moves the keyboard focus to the next pane by pressing F6 or the previous pane by pressing Shift+F6. She moves between tabbed document views by pressing Ctrl+Tab and Shift+Ctrl+Tab. o Ruth is working in her web browser, where one document window (viewport) is active (has the active keyboard focus). When she switches to her word processor, the web browser's window and its keyboard focus become inactive, and it hides its cursor. When she switches back to the browser window, it reactivates that viewport, its keyboard focus becomes active again, and its cursor reappears in the same location as when she switched to a different application. @@added from 213@@ o A developer creates an extension to a user agent that allows the user to add notes about each web page being visited. A user can press a shortcut key to move focus to the user interface of this extension and interact with the functionality offered by the extension. Similarly, the user presses another key to move focus back to the main viewport for the user agent in the same location as when she moved to the plugin. @@added from 213@@ Related Resources for Success Criterion 2.2.2: o 2.2.1 ensures that the user can navigate to elements within the viewport. @@added from 213@@ o See the description of 2.2.1 for background information on the importance of sequential navigation. -- Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator & Webmaster Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756 voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/ "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
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