- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:35:43 +0200
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
Hi Joseph, (Replying only to XTech list.) At 17:12 29/07/2008, Joseph Scheuhammer wrote: >Here's an attempt at summarizing one of the problems, and a possible >compromise. > >Currently Tab/Shift+Tab is used to move among large chunks of the >page or web app. This is pretty much the convention in the style guide. >Arrow keys are used to navigate within widgets. > >It would be very useful to have quick navigation among editable >cells in a grid and not force users to navigate "endlessly" to them >using the arrow keys. However, if the number of editable cells is >numerous, using Tab to move among them leads to a sense of being >trapped if one wants to navigate through and outside of the grid quickly. > >Would the following work as a compromise? > >- Use Tab/Shift+Tab to move in and out of widgets, as before. > >- Use arrows to navigate within widgets, as before. > >- Use Ctrl+Tab to move within a grid quickly among editable cells. > >I'm suggesting Ctrl+Tab instead of Jon's Ctrl+Enter since it >includes "Tab" and that conjures up navigation. > >However, it's entirely possible that Ctrl+Tab may already be taken >by the OS or the browser. Some browsers use Ctrl+Tab to switch between tabs (in tabbed navigation). At least Firefox, Opera and SeaMonkey do this. Ctrl+Tab takes you to the next tab, Shift+Ctrl+Tab takes you to the previous tab. Best regards, Christophe >In that case, perhaps the square bracket keys, ] and [, could be >used to denote forward and backward motion, and be used to navigate >among editable cells. > >-- >;;;;joseph > >'This is not war -- this is pest control!' > - "Doomsday", Dalek Leader - -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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