Re: tree expand/collapse keys

Thanks Victor. I was initially wondering if the problem was a question 
of navigation "mode" myself. Instead, it seems that if we release a 
right arrow key to the firefox browser, the caret moves one character to 
the right. I am wondering if we need to preserve this user expectation?  
For example I think the orca developers look for caret-moved events and 
speak the new character.  Also note shift-right arrow is often used for 
adding a character to the right, to the currently selected text.

cheers,
David

Victor Tsaran wrote:
> Hi David,
> When you speak of manipulating such widgets as treeviews, you will have to
> take into account the factthat the navigation paradigm itself will be
> different, i.e. we no longer will operate within virtual buffer or browse
> mode, thus releasing arrow keys and such to the browser.
> This may , however, conflict with Firefox's carret navigation schema.
> Victor
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On Behalf
> Of David Bolter
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:40 PM
> To: wai-xtech@w3.org
> Subject: tree expand/collapse keys
>
>
> For many users left and right arrows are used for caret navigation 
> within web pages. Using left and right arrows for collapsing and 
> expanding trees/subtress conflicts with caret navigation. It has been 
> proposed that we adopt +/- for expand and collapse and not use 
> left/right arrows.
>
> I'd like to hear feedback from the group; should we adopt +/- instead of 
> right/left arrow for key-based expand/collapse?
>
> Background:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462156
> http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/ticket/4065
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Received on Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:56:18 UTC