Re: Keynav and accessibility

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 17:05, Bryan Campbell wrote:
> in Opera keys "Q W E A S D Z X" plus numbers "0 to 9" do browser commands,
> but in *all* text entry areas they output the expected characters. in GNOME
> once something like GNOME panel has focus some keys can give commands until
> text. please read what i wrote before:
> 
> "Bringing that concept of up & down keys to GNOME control areas my thought
> is using the ", & ." keys since they have the "< & >" symbols on them to
> indicate how the command selector will move [Notably Windows Help files use
> the "< & >" keys to turn pages in the files so this a known usage [grin]].
> Importantly those keys can be added to the command structure without
> disturbing anything else because they will only work once a control area
> has input focus."
 
Well the ,. might have the < and > symbols on them on your keyboard, but
they certainly don't' on mine. I think the placement of symbols on
keyboards vary a lot between countries and could be problematic.

Christian