- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:31:32 -0600 (CST)
- To: Becky Gibson <Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com>, wai-xtech@w3.org
Why can't the close icon be in tab order and the icon can also be part of the label for the tab. Jon ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:35:21 -0500 >From: "Becky Gibson" <Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com> >Subject: Re: closing a Tab? >To: wai-xtech@w3.org > > >I implemented a context menu for closable tabs in the dojo tab container. >See the second tab panel example on [1]. The tabs with title "first" and >"third" are closable. Pressing shift-F10 with focus on these tabs will >bring up a context menu with "close". If a tab is closable, pressing the >delete key with focus on the title will delete the tab. I thought this is >what the style guide group had decided upon? Although it would be nice if >there was a way to indicate to the screen reader user that a tab (or any >other item) was deletable without having the use the shift-F10 discovery >mechanism. > >I based my implementation decision on the DHTML Style Guide June 29, 2007 >meeting minutes [2]: >TW: options other than DELETE - CTRL+F4 a possibility, have >to get comments on that - what we are saying is context menu and keyboard >shortcut combo fine - great if had property so didn't have to use context >menu, but maybe that's phase 2 >So perhaps we made a decision but just didn't record it in the style >guide? >[1] >http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/dojotoolkit/dijit/tests/layout/test_TabContainer.html >[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2007Jun/0130.html > >Becky Gibson >Web Accessibility Architect > >IBM Emerging Internet Technologies >5 Technology Park Drive >Westford, MA 01886 >Voice: 978 399-6101; t/l 333-6101 >Email: gibsonb@us.ibm.com >blog: WebA11y > > >wai-xtech-request@w3.org wrote on 02/28/2008 03:06:06 PM: > >> >> >> In the Best Practices we have a dangling question: >> >> <quote >> cite="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/#TabPanel"> >> >> Unresolved at time of port from DHTML wiki: How to indicate that a >> tab panel can be deleted? Visually a close icon can be provided in >> the upper right hand corner of the tab which the user can click on to >> delete the tab panel. Putting this close icon in the navigation >> sequence would make extra navigation. Is there some way to indicate >> to a non-visual user that a tab panel can be deleted with a defined >> keystroke? Perhaps we can capture ctrl-w (the key used in Firefox and >> IE 7) to close a tab? T * here is still the issue of the user knowing >> that the tab is closable or not. Another option is to provide a >> context menu. With focus on the tab title the user would press shift- >> F10 to invoke a context menu - the context menu would have the close >> option. In both of these cases if the tab can not be closed, it still >> needs to capture the keystroke so that it doesn't get bubbled up and >> handled by the browser. Retrieved from "http://www.weba11y.com/ >> styleguide/index.php?title=Tab_Panel" >> >> </quote> >> >> Don, >> >> Could you get this on the agenda for the Style >> Guide Group to suggest a preferred user experience? >> >> Al >> >> /satisfying ACTION-101 >> >> PS: I didn't immediately find an answer at >> http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#tabpanel >> > > > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Coordinator Information Technology Accessibility Disability Resources and Educational Services Rehabilitation Education Center Room 86 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, Illinois 61821 Voice: (217) 244-5870 WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/ WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/
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