Re: Patch for bug 85976

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

bordoley msu edu wrote:
> 
> Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> said:
> 
> My guess is that eazel changed this since this is how windows does popup
> context menus. FWIW, I agree with marco and we should follow the gtk standard
> for this. If the gtk way of doing this is broken gtk needs to be fixed imho.
> (not saying gtk is broken in this respect, I don't really have an opinion
> other than consistency is good.)

I have a nagging feeling that there's an accessibility reason to prefer
one approach over the other, but annoyingly I can't remember what the
reason is or which approach is better :/

Intuitively I would say the 'select the first (available) item' approach
is better since that gives a screenreader something to read out, and
stops visual focus from kind of just disappearing.  But then again
Windows takes the other approach and it's regarded as quite accessible,
so I dunno...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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