- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:44:02 +0000
- To: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>
- CC: Chris Blouch <cblouch@aol.com>, "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "w3c-wai-pf@w3.org" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
I think maintaining the kind of cut and paste model that many users are used to is the best way. There are questions about the "purity" of this model but in the context of trying to "grab" a modifier key that could be pressed to put the UA into "grab mode" (screen readers have/had forms mode, why not grab mode?). The user could enter grab mode then ARIA regions, or HTML 5 regions that have this functionality could be activated and primed as being selectable/droppable. The user then Shift and down arrow to select multiple items. Then tab to active drop areas and release the items using Ctrl + V. There could be a preference in the UA for "When in grab mode automatically grab the contents of the current grabbable area" and so on. Whatever the final decision is the closer this whole thing could be to what users currently do or expect the better, as Aaron mentioned. Also Ian pointed out the APIs for drag and drop and copy and paste are the same so it sounds like most of the work is done. So you have the usual Copy and Paste functionality for normal mode and then the same keys in grab mode perform "grab" like functions. This kind of thing would not be unusual for users of AT. Cheers Josh
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