Lovemore, Great to hear from you. I enjoyed meeting you at the Sakai conference. I hope you don't mind if I copy the fluid-work mailing list, since this is an interesting question.
On 13-Aug-08, at 11:10 AM, Lovenalube wrote: > Stephen Marquard suggested that I write to you regarding an issue with > setting up sortable tables using Fluid. After going through the Fluid > docs, I've been able to make a sortable table accessible using the > keyboard arrows, the problem is that the onSelect event call cannot > sort the column. I'm using Table Sorter from http://tablesorter.com I'm glad you managed to get the keyboard selection working with Table Sorter. Here's an idea for how to get the activation code working, even though Table Sorter doesn't seem to provide any sort of API for it. Can you programmatically call click() on the column within your activatable function? Here's a sketch: $(tableRows).activatable(function (column) { column.click(); }); From a quick scan of the code, they've clearly got a click handler on each of the column headers. So this should trick it into thinking the user actually clicked on the column header. If this doesn't work, we could probably hack the code to add the necessary API and see if the author is interested in the patch. Once you've got keyboard accessibility working, I'd be happy to lend a hand getting ARIA roles and states added to it. Just let me know. Colin --- Colin Clark Technical Lead, Fluid Project Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto http://fluidproject.org _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
