Re: KEYNAV:GtkMenubBar And Accessibility (bug 53543)

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

Calum,

If I understand correctly you are content with F10 posting a submenu as long as 
the focus remains in the menu bar.

If so, what do you want the Escape key to do. Your comments in bug 53544 assume 
that the menu would not be posted. Do they need to be amended if we do post a 
submenu when a menu item is selected?

Padraig

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> CC: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org, Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>, 
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> Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> > 
> > I had a look at what Java does with F10 key. It gives the menubar focus but 
also
> > posts the first menu in the menubar.
> > 
> > This behavior seems to be the same as what GTK currently does.
> > 
> > How important is it to change this behavior?
> 
> Does Gtk (or Java) currently give focus to the first menu item in the
> posted menu when this happens, or does the focus stay on the menu title?
> 
> I'm just guessing here, so I hope Marc or Peter can comment, but I
> assume it would be important for focus to stay on the menu titles when
> the menu bar gained focus (and as you subsequently pressed left/right
> arrow to move to neighbouring menus), until you explicitly moved focus
> down onto the menu.  Wouldn't this be the only way somebody using a
> screenreader would be able to get a readout of the menu titles available
> on the menu bar?
> 
> This doesn't mean the first menu couldn't post automatically as you say
> it currently does, but it does mean that focus would need to stay on the
> menu title rather than moving straight to the first item on that menu.
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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