- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:39:30 -0400
- To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- CC: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
James,
> Why not just let the left and right arrow keys wrap in a grid?
I'm not sure that addresses the problem. There is a need for:
(1) keystrokes for navigating into and out of the grid.
(2) keystrokes for navigating cell-to-cell (up and down a column and
across a row).
(3) keystrokes for navigating quickly among editable cells.
Number (3) is useful when a large number of cells are read-only and the
user wants to move only among to the editable ones.
How does wrapping solve this?
> I think we should avoid defining modifier keys whenever we can,
> because of browser and cross-platform implications.
Fundamentally, I agree. Unfortunately, grids are complicated structures
and modifier keys might be unavoidable.
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