Re: [g-a-devel]clarification needed on Keyboard Navigationamong buttons.

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Marc Mulcahy wrote:
> 
> I think stopping at the ends of rows and columns would be the most
> intuitive for a blind person, although possibly not for a sighted
> person.  Having to tab between all the buttons in gnome-calculator is
> definitely a drag since there are so many, so any improvements would be great.

Sounds fine to me-- so we go with no wraparound when using the arrow
keys, but stop with a beep instead.  (Tab should still wrap around as it
does now).  I think the matrix of buttons is small enough that a sighted
user probably wouldn't get too frustrated at the lack of wrap-around.

To improve keyboard accessibility further, I wonder if it might also be
worth assigning access keys to the function buttons, so you could do
things like Alt+S for Sine, Alt+O for Cosine etc.?

Cheeri,
Calum.

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