ISSUE-32 - Public View

ONGOING: Accessibility and UI events - how to improve the interaction

State:
OPEN
Product:
DOM 3 Events
Raised by:
Charles Mccathienevile
Opened on:
2006-02-24
Description:
There are a number of problems with accessibility which are becoming even more 
prominent with the wider range of devices on the web, where authors rely on 
events from a particular kind of user input.

mousein/out, focusin/out / focus/blur generally reflect the same user intent, 
but their specs and implementation are generally pretty different. Which makes 
it difficult either for authors, who have to do a bunch of redundant stuff they 
decide to avoid, or users who just can't activate the functionality the author 
tried to provide.

Should there be mouse up / down fired for a generic activation?

(This is the motivation that gets click to work generically, and hopefully won'
t arise with drag and drop...).

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Related emails:
  1. ISSUE-32: Accessibility and UI events - how to improve the interaction (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2006-02-24)
  2. ACTION-84, ISSUE-32, WAI and events (from chaals@opera.com on 2006-03-06)
  3. Re: ACTION-84, ISSUE-32, WAI and events (from derhoermi@gmx.net on 2006-03-06)
  4. Re: ACTION-84, ISSUE-32, WAI and events (from jonas@sicking.cc on 2006-03-07)
  5. Re: ACTION-84, ISSUE-32, WAI and events (from derhoermi@gmx.net on 2006-03-23)
  6. Re: ACTION-84, ISSUE-32, WAI and events (from chaals@opera.com on 2006-03-23)
  7. Re: in defence of listener discovery (from chaals@opera.com on 2006-03-23)
  8. Re: ACTION-84, ISSUE-32, WAI and events (from derhoermi@gmx.net on 2006-03-23)
  9. Re: in defence of listener discovery (ISSUE-32, ACTION-84) (from jonas@sicking.cc on 2006-03-23)
  10. Re: in defence of listener discovery (ISSUE-32, ACTION-84) (from mjs@apple.com on 2006-03-23)
  11. Re: in defence of listener discovery (ISSUE-32, ACTION-84) (from Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org on 2006-03-29)
  12. Re: in defence of listener discovery (ISSUE-32, ACTION-84) (from jonas@sicking.cc on 2006-03-30)
  13. Re: in defence of listener discovery (ISSUE-32, ACTION-84) (from mjs@apple.com on 2006-03-30)
  14. Re: in defence of listener discovery (ISSUE-32, ACTION-84) (from Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org on 2006-03-31)
  15. Re: in defence of listener discovery (ISSUE-32, ACTION-84) (from jim@jibbering.com on 2006-03-31)
  16. Joint call, dblclick... (from chaals@opera.com on 2006-04-09)
  17. Re: Joint call, dblclick... (from Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org on 2006-04-10)
  18. Re: in defence of listener discovery (ISSUE-32, ACTION-84) (from Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org on 2006-04-10)
  19. Re: in defence of listener discovery (ISSUE-32, ACTION-84) (from chaals@opera.com on 2006-04-11)
  20. Re: in defence of listener discovery (ISSUE-32, ACTION-84) (from jonas@sicking.cc on 2006-04-11)
  21. Re: agenda: PF telecon 19 April 2006 at 13:00 UTC (from chaals@opera.com on 2006-04-18)
  22. Minutes, face to face meeting (from chaals@opera.com on 2006-05-15)

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