On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Jay Campan <jcam...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > +1. To a beginner, left and right arrow might be more intuitive and an
> > opportunity for us to innovate. But millions of people use
> screenreaders,
> > have trouble using the mouse, or are just power users who love keyboard
> > shortcuts, and we're just frustrating them by not letting them use
> standard
> > control navigation keys (like Tab and Shift+Tab) that work throughout
> > Windows.
> I'll let Jonas comment as I am not sure I remember how we came up with
> that design.
Definitely. BTW, I just joined the accessibility team and I'm hoping to
help continue much of the great work Jonas has done so far. He's thought
about this a lot more than I have so far, though!
> > 2. In addition, when any control in the toolbar gains focus via the
> keyboard
> > (or maybe always), the whole toolbar highlights in some subtle way
> > indicating the whole toolbar is the containing region to the focused
> > control. This enables the user to press left and right arrow keys as an
> > additional way to move the focus to other controls in the toolbar - this
> is
> > similar to how when you have a radio button active, you can use arrows to
> > change the selected radio button. However, if at any point they press
> Tab
> > or Shift+Tab, they'll navigate among all controls, on or off the toolbar,
> > exactly as one would expect.
> I see your point with the radio-buttons, but I am not entirely
> convinced it would be good for the toolbar.
> With radio buttons, using the arrows is the only way to focus another
> button (when tab traversing only the selected radio-buttons of a group
> gets focused).
>
Agreed. Personally I would prefer just supporting Tab and Shift+Tab, plus
some extra shortcuts to jump to one or more controls - but I think there's a
lot of room for innovation and compromise as long as Tab navigation isn't
broken.
- Dominic
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