Updated Mozilla Keyboard Navigation spec.



Greetings,

After reviewing the many hundreds of comments and messages generated by the first Mozilla/Gecko Keyboard Navigation Proposal, I'm pleased to announced our second draft is available for review, at:

  http://www.mozilla.org/access/keyboard/proposal

After the huge volume of feedback, we carefully re-thought a number of things and especially took to heart the frequent request for configurability. To that end we have decided to prune some of the commands from this second draft to cover only "core" navigation to be implemented directly in C in Gecko. Configurability is most easily done in JavaScript extensions, and that is where we feel all of the "item navigation" work is best done. This is also where much of the "specialized for specific accessibility needs" navigation falls as well - blind users for example finding good table item navigation particularly important where a general keyboard user wouldn't benefit as much.

Sun plans to implement all of the specific keyboard navigation items discussed in the specification (with exceptions clearly noted). We believe that item navigation is important, but we don't propose to implement that immeidately - both because there is yet no clear concensus as to how it should be done, and because we feel that it is urgent that we have "core keyboard navigation" working well as quickly as possible.

Sun's Mozilla engineering team has been posting source tarballs of Mozilla periodically containing all of Sun's changes to a Mozilla 1.7 branch, where our work is taking place toward a release we are working on. This second draft notes which portions of the keyboard navigation proposal are implemented in Mozilla trunk, which have thus far only be implemented in the Sun Mozilla 1.7 branch, and which have yet to be implemented anywhere.


I encourage you to review this draft, and send your comments again only to <mozilla-accessibility mozilla org>. I also encourage you to try those portions of the keyboad navigation proposal which have been implemented. You can see Sun's most recent Mozilla 1.7 branch tarball at: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/accessibility/sun-mozilla-1.7/12-03-2004/


Sincerely,


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team




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