[WSG] Firefox MAC OSX checkbox keyboard tabbing problem - ANSWER (of sorts)
Hi, thanks for the replies Ben and Terrence. I found that the System Preferences did nothing. I've checked 3 Mac OSX machines here, 2 are 10.2.8 and one is 10.3.2. The 10.2.8 machines had 'Turn on full Keyboard access' off by default. The 10.3.2 had it turned on by default. Even when I changed it to on for the first 2, it made no difference ( I also tried changing the 'For Windows and dialogs, highlight' option from 'Text boxes and lists only' to 'any control' - this made no difference). Even after restarting browsers and then the machines. The other thing i discovered is that Safari is acting the same as Firefox - on both systems (unable to tab to a checkbox, radiobox, select,reset or submit input). What did work was changing the config in Firefox (by typing in about:config, then changing the accessibility:tabfocus value from its default OSX setting of 1 - 'Text field form controls only' to 7 'All form controls and hyperlinks'). Thanks for the url Terrence. The only unresolved issues are: a) why did the systems preference settings seemingly make no difference b) why is Safari still unable to tab to anything but text field form controls. Is there a Safari version of 'about:config' ? cheers, Grant Ben wrote: Mac OSX has a system preference for 'Enable full keyboard access' which in Safari at least is responsible for controlling whether you can access form controls with the keyboard. Switching it on allows you to do it. On 7/28/05, Focas, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've discovered a problem with Firefox and checkboxes and want to see if anyone elses experience is the same. I'm using Firefox 1.06 on Mac OSX 10.2.8 (though it also occurs in Firefox 1.04) and cannot use a keyboard to navigate to a checkbox. Two example pages where it does not work are: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/formex.html http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/TS/html401/cp0101/0101-ACCESSKEY-CHECKBOX.html It is working fine on Firefox on PC. Notice that in the first page the radio buttons, select, submit and reset also will not recieve focus. Grant Focas ** This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain privileged information or confidential information or both. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender. ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Firefox MAC OSX checkbox keyboard tabbing problem - ANSWER (of sorts)
The Safari thing sounds odd, using 'full keyboard access' from system preferences gets Safari working for me. I'm using 10.3.5, Safari 1.2.3 v125.9 with no problems. Try adjusting enabling access for assistive devices in system preferences-universal access. There are some applications that provide additional prefs for Safari but I'm not using any of them so I can't offer any more advice. kind regards Terrence Wood. On 29 Jul 2005, at 12:45 PM, Focas, Grant wrote: The only unresolved issues are: a) why did the systems preference settings seemingly make no difference b) why is Safari still unable to tab to anything but text field form controls. Is there a Safari version of 'about:config' ? ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Firefox MAC OSX checkbox keyboard tabbing problem - ANSWER (of sorts)
On 29 Jul 2005, at 9:45 am, Focas, Grant wrote: The only unresolved issues are: a) why did the systems preference settings seemingly make no difference b) why is Safari still unable to tab to anything but text field form controls. Is there a Safari version of 'about:config' ? 1/ For the upcoming Firefox 1.5, you won't need to add the pref in about:config, just make sure you check the system prefs. Firefox 1.0x and Camino 0.9a2 don't know about the system pref, and need the 'accessibility:tabfocus' setting. 2/ For Safari, open up the application prefs and under the Advanced pane, you'll see a checkbox for that purpose. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
RE: [WSG] Firefox MAC OSX checkbox keyboard tabbing problem - ANSWER (of sorts)
Under Safari - preferences - advanced, I only get 2 options: stylesheets and proxies. Thanks for the info on Firefox 1.5. Grant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philippe Wittenbergh Sent: Friday, 29 July 2005 12:38 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Firefox MAC OSX checkbox keyboard tabbing problem - ANSWER (of sorts) On 29 Jul 2005, at 9:45 am, Focas, Grant wrote: The only unresolved issues are: a) why did the systems preference settings seemingly make no difference b) why is Safari still unable to tab to anything but text field form controls. Is there a Safari version of 'about:config' ? 1/ For the upcoming Firefox 1.5, you won't need to add the pref in about:config, just make sure you check the system prefs. Firefox 1.0x and Camino 0.9a2 don't know about the system pref, and need the 'accessibility:tabfocus' setting. 2/ For Safari, open up the application prefs and under the Advanced pane, you'll see a checkbox for that purpose. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain privileged information or confidential information or both. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender. ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
