Re: Is keynav to unavailable menu items a bug?

["david poehlman" <david poehlman handsontechnologeyes com>]

Mozilla is doing it correctly.  Windows is actually somewhat confusing in 
this regard.  It does allow exposure to menu items that are unavailable, but 
items that are tabbed to within dialogs which are unavailable or greyed out 
are skipped thus causing some confusion.  For efficiency, it might be that 
this stuff should be skippable but for consistancy and constancy, they shold 
probably be available in list/tab order.

Johnnie Apple Seed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Korn" <Peter Korn sun com>
To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>; 
<mozilla-accessibility mozilla org>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:03 PM
Subject: Is keynav to unavailable menu items a bug?


Greetings,

On the GNOME desktop (as opposed to Windows), it isn't possible to arrow
through unavailable items in a menu.  Arrowing up/down in menus skips over
those items that are grey-ed out.

When Mozilla is running on GNOME, Mozilla behaves as it does on Windows - 
you
can arrow to unavailable menu items (and if you are running Gnopernicus, you
will be told that these items aren't available).  This has led to some
confusion on the part of our testers (see bug #155506in bugzilla, at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155506).

I'm curious what folks' thoughts are on this...


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

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