- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:51:20 -0500
- To: Becky Gibson <Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com>
- CC: "David Bolter <david.bolter" <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Becky wrote:
> "focus the Country Column Header"
> "sort ascending"
>
> The following would happen in response to the above voice commands:
> the column header labeled "Country" would be focused; then the sort
> ascending action would be performed and the grid re-rendered; then
> focus would be put back into the column header.
Food for thought: is the "sort ascending action" accomplished by
directly setting the aria-sort property, or by calling a grid function
that (1) executes the sort, and (2) sets the aria-sort property as
appropriate. That is, the aria-sort property is possibly not directly
manipulated by the voice command system.
Compare with keyboard-based sorting: tab navigate to the column header,
invoke a context menu, and choose the "sort ascending" menu item. The
keyboard based method obviously does not directly manipulate aria-sort.
--
;;;;joseph
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Received on Thursday, 5 March 2009 22:52:06 UTC