Hi Anastasia-- I should be able to do this once I get back to the office week after next. I'll need to brainstorm with you about how to do it.
Thx Mike Michael S. Elledge Assistant Director Usability & Accessibility Center Michigan State University 517-353-8977 On Mar 19, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Anastasia Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, Mike (and all), > > I wanted to give you an update on where we're at getting the > Lightbox ready for user testing. > > The main issue we've been struggling with is finding a set of > keystrokes that the Lightbox can use that is not already in use by > JAWS or Window-Eyes. This is turning out to be *exceedingly* > difficult, to put it mildly. The current default (which is the arrow > keys for navigation, with the CTRL modifier added for actual moving) > does not work. We want to not conflict with any of the default > keystrokes for these applications. > > We've given up finding a single set of keys that will work for > *both* applications, and are considering different sets of > keystrokes. We've identified the combination of I, J, K, and M, with > the CTRL modifier, as a possibility for JAWS, but this combination > does not work with Window-Eyes. > > If anyone is familiar enough with JAWS and Window-Eyes to have any > suggestions for us for dealing with this issue, we'd love to hear > from you. > > > Mike, we're wondering if another direction that might be useful here > is a bit of contextual inquiry into how screen reader users > currently accomplish reordering tasks similar to the Lightbox (and > the Reorderer in general). Do you think you might have some > resources to investigate this? > > -- > Anastasia Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Software Designer, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org > Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto > > _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
