Re: Modality interpretation

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Monday 01 of December 2003 13:57, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >On Wednesday 26 of November 2003 17:59, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> >>Hi.
[snip]
> >>3) How might a system modal window be created without a pointer,
> >> keyboard, or server grab, so that accessibility technologies may still
> >> be used?
> >
> > AFAIK system modal windows are frowned upon here (I guess people here
> >remember the Windows dialog 'do you want to restart windows? ok' , or
> >whatever it says exactly). Is there really no way to support accessibility
> > if the dialog has input grabs?
>
> Pretty much.  A server grab will definitely break stuff, a keyboard grab
> will, er, prevent keyboard input to the assistive technologies ;-)
> which is only acceptable in a few corner cases.  Doing a pointer grab is
> sure to cause problems for GOK.  Use of override-redirect windows
> (especially if they do not honor WM_STRUTS) will also break GOK usage.
>

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83357 ;)

 But if there's no other way, than I guess we could add this ...

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