Re: [g-a-devel]Clarification needed on Mouse Interaction guidelines.

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM>]

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Hi Narayana,

Perhaps Calum can clarified this but I would expect that any operation which can 
be done by button 2 or button 3 should also be capable of being done using the 
keyboard; for exampel Shift+F10 should popup the context menu.

Padraig


> Hi,
> 
> In the Mouse interaction section of user interface guidelines(part of
> the accessibility draft) at the following link:
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/guide/gad/gad-ui-guidelines.html,
> 
> one of the guidelines is " Don't depend on input from mouse button 2 or
> button 3 ".
> 
> What does this mean.? In many applications, user has to depend on the
> inputs from mouse buttom 2 and/or 3.
> For example, user has to right-click to get a pop-up menu or to do other
> operations.
> 
> If the above accessibility guideline is followed,  how the other
> operations with
> button 2 or 3 are going to be emulated with just button 1 of the mouse.?
> 
> Can somebody explain the above guideline in more detail with respect to
> accessibility.
> 
> Regards,
> Narayana.