Re: [DHTML Style Guide] Tablist: why alt+del?

AT needs to get out of the way of ua.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Victor Tsaran" <vtsaran@yahoo-inc.com>
To: "David Bolter" <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>; "Joseph Scheuhammer" 
<clown@utoronto.ca>
Cc: <wai-xtech@w3.org>; "earl johnson" <earlj.biker@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 1:40 PM
Subject: RE: [DHTML Style Guide] Tablist: why alt+del?



Guys,
We are overloading these widgets with so many keystrokes that I am
afraid we will never get them working. We have to be considerate of AT
keystrokes, browser keystrokes etc. A good example is ALT+DELETE (JAWS
uses this for reading the position of an active cursor). Do you expect
they will give that up?
Why don't we simply offer very basic keyboard support and make all the
auxilary functions, such as deleting tabs, thrugh a context menu?
-----Original Message-----
From: wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of David Bolter
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 10:05 AM
To: Joseph Scheuhammer
Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org; earl johnson
Subject: Re: [DHTML Style Guide] Tablist: why alt+del?


One guess is that if the user is experimenting with Control+W to see if
it works...  they'll close their window if the DHTML author hasn't
implemented swallowed that event (since it bubbles).

cheers,
David

Joseph Scheuhammer wrote:
>
> The current keystroke proposal for tablist is:
> http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#tabpanel
>
> If a tabpanel is "delete-able", the suggested keystroke is "Alt+Del".
> I have forgotten the reason for that, and, now, it strikes me as odd.
>
> Other tablists (for example, desktop tablists) where a tabpanel is
> "delete-able", the usual gesture is "Control+W" (Command+W on Mac).
> Since this is already common practice, I suggest that it be used for
> dhtml tablists as well.
>
> Was there a reason why "Control+W" was not available?
>
> Note that this is important to get "right" since we are trying to
> consolidate the keystrokes for tablist and accordion.  At the moment,
> the accordion guidelines make no mention of deletion, although I
> anticipate some one will design an accordion that way, and it should
> use the same keystroke.
> http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#accordion
>
> (Aside:  FWIW, "Alt+Del" appears only once in the style guide).
>

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