RE: closing a Tab?

We need to have some awareness of the closability to a tab, like a popup context menu.  I am not sure a tooltip is the best way to do this.

Jon


---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:58:31 +0100
>From: "Schnabel, Stefan" <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>  
>Subject: RE: closing a Tab?  
>To: "Wlodkowski, Thomas" <Thomas.Wlodkowski@corp.aol.com>, "Jon Gunderson" <jongund@uiuc.edu>, "Becky Gibson" <Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>
>
>Tom,
>
>That's why we're doing Best Practices, don't we?
>
>Think of FireFox. Having 10 Tabs open and arrow keying with additional
>focusing of the closing cross icon will result in a keyhitcount of 18 to
>navigate the tabs instead of 9.
>
>And don't tell me Firefox isn't a good example :) (just kidding)
>
>So currently we solve the issue for Tabs in our Web Dynpro frameworks
>with memorizing special keys in the tab tooltip in cases where it does
>make sense.
>
>- Stefan 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wlodkowski, Thomas [mailto:Thomas.Wlodkowski@corp.aol.com] 
>Sent: Freitag, 29. Februar 2008 18:25
>To: Schnabel, Stefan; Jon Gunderson; Becky Gibson; wai-xtech@w3.org
>Subject: RE: closing a Tab?
>
>I also think the icon attached to the tab or in the tab order may also
>be helpful. We need to consider cognitive load when talking about
>keyboard shortcuts. Too many web and software apps to track/memorize.
>
> 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On
>Behalf Of Schnabel, Stefan
>Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:54 AM
>To: Jon Gunderson; Becky Gibson; wai-xtech@w3.org
>Subject: RE: closing a Tab?
>
>
>Jon,
>
>better to have a standardized hotkey for closing tab. As a concept we
>tend to keep tab chains short.
>
>Regards
>Stefan
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On
>Behalf Of Jon Gunderson
>Sent: Freitag, 29. Februar 2008 17:32
>To: Becky Gibson; wai-xtech@w3.org
>Subject: Re: closing a Tab?
>
>
>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/t
>est_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
>>> 
>>
>>
>>
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