[guispeak] announcement:Fw: Updated Mozilla Keyboard Navigation spec.
- From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "GUISPEAK List" <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:36:35 -0500
For window eyes users, this might be especially informative. For those who
use screen readers who have not yet announced their intention to support
this, it is a good time to look this over and discuss as directed in the
announcement below and with the manufacturer of their favorite screen
reader.
Johnnie Apple Seed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Korn" <Peter.Korn@xxxxxxx>
To: <mozilla-accessibility@xxxxxxxxxxx>;
<gnome-accessibility-list@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 2:58 AM
Subject: Updated Mozilla Keyboard Navigation spec.
Greetings,
After reviewing the many hundreds of comments and messages generated by the
first Mozilla/Gecko Keyboard Navigation Proposal, I'm pleased to announced
our
second draft is available for review, at:
http://www.mozilla.org/access/keyboard/proposal
After the huge volume of feedback, we carefully re-thought a number of
things
and especially took to heart the frequent request for configurability. To
that end we have decided to prune some of the commands from this second
draft
to cover only "core" navigation to be implemented directly in C in Gecko.
Configurability is most easily done in JavaScript extensions, and that is
where we feel all of the "item navigation" work is best done. This is also
where much of the "specialized for specific accessibility needs" navigation
falls as well - blind users for example finding good table item navigation
particularly important where a general keyboard user wouldn't benefit as
much.
Sun plans to implement all of the specific keyboard navigation items
discussed
in the specification (with exceptions clearly noted). We believe that item
navigation is important, but we don't propose to implement that
immeidately -
both because there is yet no clear concensus as to how it should be done,
and
because we feel that it is urgent that we have "core keyboard navigation"
working well as quickly as possible.
Sun's Mozilla engineering team has been posting source tarballs of Mozilla
periodically containing all of Sun's changes to a Mozilla 1.7 branch, where
our work is taking place toward a release we are working on. This second
draft notes which portions of the keyboard navigation proposal are
implemented
in Mozilla trunk, which have thus far only be implemented in the Sun Mozilla
1.7 branch, and which have yet to be implemented anywhere.
I encourage you to review this draft, and send your comments again only to
<mozilla-accessibility@xxxxxxxxxxx>. I also encourage you to try those
portions of the keyboad navigation proposal which have been implemented.
You
can see Sun's most recent Mozilla 1.7 branch tarball at:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/accessibility/sun-mozilla-1.7/12-03-2004/
Sincerely,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
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