(resending from list approved account) Here's the bit I was trying to probe on: LW: The "Active child" is the element that the aria-activedescendant property points to. And it should also be equivalent to the “Keyboard focus”. I just wanted to make sure Larry was on the same page with my example. Cheers, David On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>wrote: > On 11-11-14 4:08 PM, david bolter wrote: > >> Thanks Larry. >> >> Here's a fun tricky case: >> >> In the case where there is an editable field, which has a some text "fo" >> followed by a blinking text entry bar, and there is a drop down of >> autocompletions such as "foo" "food" "fox"... etc, and in addition to this >> it is possible to up and down arrow to move the selection highlight among >> the completions, where is visual keyboard focus? >> > > Not tricky enough, or, it's just implicit: add the fact that any > characters that the user types are shown in the text field. Using your > example, starting with "fo": if the user types an 'o', the text field > becomes "foo" followed by a blinking cursor. Also, left and right arrows > move among the characters in the text field. Yet another also, > shift+left/right arrows select characters in the text field. > > Yours in explicitness, > > > -- > ;;;;joseph > > 'I had some dreams, they were clowns in my coffee. Clowns in my coffee.' > - C. Simon (misheard lyric) - > >
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