Re: Newbie question: Section 508 and "full keyboard access" on Mac OS X
Re: Newbie question: Section 508 and "full keyboard access" on Mac OS X
- Subject: Re: Newbie question: Section 508 and "full keyboard access" on Mac OS X
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 06:14:18 -0400
on 03-09-02 11:36 AM, Smith Kennedy at email@hidden wrote:
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A couple of tests showed me that editable fields
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> on a
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> Web page, such as the Google search box, are also keyboard accessible.
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The application itself seems to be fully keyboard accessible, but the
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Web content is not.
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The problem is that links and all form elements are not accessible via
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the keyboard. The whole point of a Web browser is to present content
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to the user, including pages with hyperlinks and forms in them. So
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anything that is "clickable" needs to be accessible. If there is an
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ordinary HTML page with one link on it, and a user can't navigate to
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that link using the keyboard, how is a disabled user for whom a mouse
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is irrelevant supposed to use the Web? If the user can't choose from a
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pop-up menu or click on a button, that means the form will be useless
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to them.
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It is possible that this is a limitation of WebCore/WebKit/KHTML
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instead of Safari specifically, but I haven't experimented with this to
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know for sure.
Safari 1.0 in Jaguar was rushed out the door, as I understand it. I know the
version in Panther is much better, but I haven't tested this particular
issue in the Panther version yet. If it still isn't working fully in
Panther, it would be worth a bug report to Apple.
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