RE: Reserved keystrokes for borwsers and operating system functions

BTW we have the same issue with plugins.

Right now when they have focus they steal *all* keystrokes and the browser 
gets none.

There was a developer suggesting we change things around and only allow 
content/plugins to get keystrokes we don't absolutely need. It brings up a 
lot of concerns, but I'm not sure I'd rule out that approach entirely. It 
needs to be considered.

- Aaron





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RE: Reserved keystrokes for borwsers and operating system functions






The battle between widgets and browser access to the keyboard is why the 
AXS library developed by Chris Blouch on my team now uses Alt+Control+the 
letter key.
 
To be honest, I'm not sure how the keyboard battle is resolved if there 
isn't some path toward better cooperation between the widget and browser. 
My company develops web apps that in many cases replace software 
applications. I suspect consumers want the same or equivalent behaviors 
when they're accessing email via a webmail app. Hopefully this issue will 
spark greater participation in the DHTML Style Guide working group that 
meets weekly on Tuesdays at noon. You can see the widget-specific keyboard 
behaviors discussed thus far at:
http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide
 
Tom
 
 

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I have an old list but it should be updated. Could be a great resources if 
it was. 
http://www.mozilla.org/access/keyboard/ 

Anyway, in the case of Alt+left it didn't appear the grid really meant to 
use it. Better to check always the modifier key and let it go if it's not 
the key you're looking for. 

- Aaron 



Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu> 
12/18/2007 03:27 PM 


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Aaron,
Is there a list of key combinations that ARIA (Web 2.0) applications 
should never use?

There are already some conflicts in the best practices, in that case the 
best practices says the Widget should win.

Are these combinations going to be OS and browser specific?

Jon


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:53:54 -0500
>From: Aaron M Leventhal <aleventh@us.ibm.com> 
>Subject: Re: Updated Illinois ARIA Examples 
>To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
>Cc: W3C WAI-PFWG <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, 
wai-xtech-request@w3.org
>
>   I see a bug in the grid example.
>
>   If I hit Alt+left or Alt+right to move in my browser
>   history, it moves in the grid instead. The script is
>   stealing those keystrokes instead of letting it go
>   to the browser.
>   You have to return true from your event handler if
>   the key was not used. That lets it bubble to the
>   next possible handler.
>
>   - Aaron
>
>   Jon Gunderson                 To W3C WAI-PFWG 
>   <jongund@uiuc.edu>               <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, 
>   Sent by:                         W3C WAI-XTECH 
>   wai-xtech-request@w3.org         <wai-xtech@w3.org> 
>                                 cc 
>   12/17/2007 05:46 PM      Subject Updated Illinois 
>                                    ARIA Examples 
> 
>
>   I have update the following examples to use the
>   non-namespaced version of the ARIA markup:
>
>   Menubar
>   http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/menubar/
>
>   Grid
>   http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/grid/
>
>   Slider
>   http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/slider/
>
>   Slider
>   http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/slider/
>
>   Tab Panel
>   http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/tabpanel/
>   Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
>   Coordinator of Assistive Communication and
>   Information Technology (DRES)
>
>   WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/
>   WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/
Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
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