Re: [orca-list] Orca and drag and drop

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello again,
Further to my original question, I tried out the particular case I was 
thinking of and regardless of orca supporting drag and drop it was 
inaccessible (it is a browser based exam system with drag and drop 
questions (I believe using javascript for the feature), orca was even 
unable to find the items I was to drag and drop). I had similar results 
when using window-eyes so I believe the system itself could do with 
accessibility improvements. I have initially reported this back to the 
exam provider, but does anyone have any examples of accessible drag and 
drop in a web page which I could point them to for improvements to be 
made to the system? (An example of the question might be drag and drop 
the code fragments to form a class which will compile and output "x = 7"?)

Michael Whapples

On 23/12/42 20:59, Michael Whapples wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Hello,
> I have done a quick search regarding this and all I could find was a 
> comment from July 2007 saying that orca does not support drag and drop 
> and that any application not providing a suitable keyboard alternative 
> should have a high priority bug filed against them. Is the status 
> still the same? I just thought orca might as while ideally 
> applications should provide the alternative not all do and as orca 
> offers mouse click operations at flat review (which seems equally 
> should not be needed if the application offers full keyboard control) 
> then may be drag and drop could be supported.
>
> Michael Whapples
>
> </div>