Re: [g-a-devel]Re: Auto-completion popup?

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 11:54, Bill Haneman wrote:

> Note that there's another awkward bit of "modality"/statefulness here -
> if the (blind) user isn't told that the popup is there as soon as it
> appears, then the affect of the arrow keys will have changed (from
> navigation through the focus-chain for the dialog, to navigation within
> the popup) without any notice.  That's bad, but perhaps the interruption
> of having "Popup: word completion!" being spoken all the time, or placed
> on a braille display, would be worse.

I guess it would be interesting to hear how AT users get on with this in
MS Windows, since the proposed UI sounds pretty much the same as the one
Windows Explorer (and Moz/NS6+) uses in its address bar.  The Microsoft
design was certainly arrived at by usability testing (I've posted a link
about that before), but I don't know how/if it was ever 'accessibility
tested'...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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