Re: Keynav issues with dialogs and selectable alert text

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 19 Dec 2005, at 20:12, Olav Vitters wrote:

> Reference http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323586
>
> Closing a gnome-terminal window with multiple tabs will display an  
> alert
> dialog with 2 buttons, 'Cancel' and 'Close All Tabs'. The default
> button is the 'Close All Tabs'. Pressing tab will switch the focus to
> the alert text. In bug 323586 the reporter complains that this is not
> noticeable.
>
> I think allowing the text to be selected is good according to the  
> HIG as
> it allows a user to copy the text (for support). The downside is low
> vision or blind users not seeing that the text is being selected.
>
> How can the focus issue be solved?

(I've added some comments to this bug.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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