- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:08:44 -0500
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
This is a followup to the Nov 2 DHTML/ARIA style guide teleconference. One of the proposals was to provide examples of keyboard usage in DHTML contexts. The Fluid project is about to release a component that permits keyboard based drag-and-drop. The component in question is called the "Lightbox". It depends on a more general "Reorderer" JavaScript object. The purpose of the Lightbox is to allow users to reorganize a set of pictures -- it's analagous to a photographer organizing a set of slides on a light table. The purpose of the Reorderer is to give client software a general way to reorder meaningful chunks of HTML within a container. The Lightbox is a specific use of the Reorderer. In terms of keyboard accessibility, the Reorderer currently defines: 1. the arrow keys for navigating among the orderable items, and 2. control+arrow to move an orderable item to a new location. The latter constitutes a kind of keyboard based drag-and-drop. In terms of this interest group, are these reasonable keystroke definitions given the context? You can view a demonstration of a standalone Lightbox here: http://build.fluidproject.org:8080/sakai-imagegallery-tool/component-templates/html/Lightbox.html You can see the Lightbox deployed withing Sakai's gallery tool here (login as use "demo", with password "demo". After logging in, click the "Fluid Demo" tab): http://build.fluidproject.org/portal For more information on the Lightbox and the Reorderer, check out Fluid's wiki documentation: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Reorderer http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Lightbox+Component Shameless plug: for more information about Fluid itself, here is the main project page: http://www.fluidproject.org -- Joseph Scheuhammer, Ph.D. Adaptive Technology Resource Centre University of Toronto 130 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 3A1 Tel: 416-946-3196 Fax: 416-971-2629 E-mail: clown.scheuhammer@utoronto.ca WWW: http://atrc.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123&Itemid=116 'A dog, a panic in a pagoda' - "Bob", W. A. Yankovic -
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