Re: [g-a-devel]Panel Accessibility Questions

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Padraig O'Briain wrote:

(in reply to Marc)

> > Also, I notice that many applets simply have a button to pop open a dialog
> > or the like, which seems fine enough.  But it seems there are some applets
> > which have multiple focusable controls in them which are all in the tab
> > order.  Wouldn't it make sense that when a user tabs around the panel, each
> > thing in the panel is represented by only one item in the focus chain.  To
> > activate that item, the user would press enter or space, just as is
> > currently the case with applets which are represented by a button?

OK, for what it's worth I too think this behavior is broken, and prefer
Marc's suggestion...

-Bill

> 
> I will defer to Calum on this. I have tried to imploement what was in the Gnome
> Panel Keyboard Navigation proposal at
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/keynav/panelnav.html
> 
> Padraig