Re: [g-a-devel]What exactly is Visual Focus Indicator.

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>]

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> Subject: Re: [g-a-devel]What exactly is Visual Focus Indicator.
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> Hi Padraig,
> 
> In the accessibility draft, visual focus indicator is said to be an audio


The use of audio here sounds wrong to me. I would have expected visual.
Hopefully, someone will contradict or agree with me.

Padraig


> representation of
> cursor position.
> 
> " A visual focus indicator is an audio representation of the cursor position
> relative to the other objects on the
>   desktop. This allows the user to move among objects interactively as the 
focus
> changes. The visual focus must
>   be programatically exposed to assistive technologies."
> 
> 
> Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> 
> > Hi Narayana,
> >
> > The visual focus indicator shows which widget on the screen has focus. When 
a
> > widget has focus its visual appearance should be different that when it does 
not
> > have focus. The ichange in appearance is different for different widgets. It
> > helps any user, not just a user with a disability, in that one knows that 
the
> > widget which has focus receives a key typed on the keyboard.
> >
> 
>     Are you talking about Keyboard focus here. ?  Looking at the explanation 
given
> to Visual
>     focus indicator in the draft, I feel it is different.
> 
> Regards,
> Narayana.
> 
>