Re: [Fwd: Accessibility aspects of Close buttons on dialogs?]

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:24:05PM +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
> 
> Forwarding another GAP response to the "close button" query...
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Thomas Ward" <tward bright net>
> Subject: Accessibility aspects of Close buttons on dialogs?
> To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> 
> Hi,being a blind computer user myself I know that having a close gtk+
> button is extremely useful. You have to remember the blind like to be 
> able to arrow or tab to a control rather than emulating a mouse and
> moving to a close icon near the top of the window.
> So the programmers should really strongly think about putting a close
> button at the bottum of a dialog box.
> 
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> Bill Haneman x19279
> Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
> Sun Microsystems Ireland 

A document window close command is not accessible by tabbing or arrow keys
when text is being entered. I have yet to see anyone seriously propose that
tab or arrow keys should be used in this way for a document window.

The ways to access a close command for a document window via the keyboard
are by the window keybinding to close, the window keybinding to a window menu
and then arrow keys to the close item or the close item access key, or
perhaps the keybinding to open the File menu and then the arrow keys
or the access key.

Are there no blind users of Macs? Until MacOS X the dialog command buttons
were not in the tab sequence. Still for the Mac a "Modeless Dialog Box"
does not have a closing button except for that one provided by the window
frame. As far as I know, the Mac window frame is not part of the tab sequence
either.


Cheers,
Gregory Merchan