Re: Resend: MacOS Accessibility Questions (Mark Thomas)
Re: Resend: MacOS Accessibility Questions (Mark Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Resend: MacOS Accessibility Questions (Mark Thomas)
- From: "Eric T. Seymour" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:58:36 -0800
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:25:53 +0000
From: Mark Thomas <email@hidden>
Subject: Resend: MacOS Accessability Questions
To: <email@hidden>
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Hi All,
Didn't get any answers, so thought I might ping again, as I want
to make
the application we have as accessibly we can.
Thanks
Mark.
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Hi,
Was wondering if this was the right mailing list to ask about
accessibility and how it interacts with the user and what the desired
functionality were needed for.
As we have developed a WebKit enabled application and we need to be
accessibility friendly due to UK law, but some of the accessibility
behaviors don't seem right to me and would like some ask some
questions
regarding this.
e.g. What it is desired effect having the item chooser and why
does it
alpha sort everything.
The item chooser menu provides a user with a list of all (accessible)
elements in a window. It is intended to be a supplemental screen
navigation technique. Sighted folks generally navigate a user
interface by glancing around the screen, quickly identifying an
element of interest, and then moving the mouse to it or tabbing until
the focus loop moves to it. This technique is generally very efficient.
Most VoiceOver users do not use vision to navigate. Instead they
move from item to item using the VoiceOver cursor, and listen to a
description of each item. Since moving from item to item can be more
tedious, we introduced the Item Chooser Menu as an alternative. The
user can press control-option-i to open the Item Chooser Menu. They
can then arrow through each element, or more typically, they can type
a few characters to narrow the list. Once the list is narrowed, they
can arrow over one or two items that are similarly spelled to find
what they are looking for. With practice, a user can significantly
reduce the number of keystrokes necessary to move around.
To navigate elements based on their screen location, simply use
control+option+arrows.
--E.
Thanks
Mark.
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