Re: eject buttons on the places menu

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 4 Jan 2007, at 23:21, Dave Neary wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 20:26 +0100, David Prieto wrote:
> > > I'm open to alternative solutions, anyway. Would it be OK if  
> > > keyboard
> > > navigation just ignored the eject buttons?
> >
> > it would be an accessibility issue, and I'm positive that the a11y
> > people would *not* let this be implemented - and with good reasons.
>
> I've been getting the impression reading this thread that I'm the only
> person who has used this feature on OSX... anyone know how the
> accessibility issue is handled over there?

If you're comparing with the eject icons in the Finder sidebar,  
they're not directly accessible, in the sense that you can't focus/ 
activate them separately.

They do have better keyboard and menu facilities than us for ejecting  
things, though:  if you manage to highlight a mounted device in the  
sidebar[1], you can just press Cmd-E (or select File->Eject) at that  
point.  Indeed, you can do this in any Finder window that's showing  
the root folder of on an ejectable device, whether the sidebar is  
visible or not.

Or, you can just highlight the mounted device icon on the desktop,  
and hit Cmd-E or select File->Eject.

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] I say "manage" because unlike Nautilus, the OSX sidebar isn't  
keyboard navigable.

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