Re: [orca-list] Orca and Firefox 3 - carret control

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

> , and I am highly against any kind of forms mode.

Yes, me as well. However, it seems that there needs to be either a special 
key sequence to get into a textarea, or get out of one. Yes, tab would do 
it, but it could take you quite a ways away from the current control, 
depending on the structure of the document. Seems that the escape key would 
be a good mechanism for escaping from whatever field your in, regardless of 
how you got there. It closes menus, should colapse a combobox, and could be 
made to allow one to arrow away from a textarea.  If any printable character 
were typed after an escape, then it would be entered into the textarea and 
the effects of escape would be canceled.  Agreed that it sounds a bit like 
forms mode too, but how does one handle the case of the textarea  without 
special activation or escape-from keys?

-- Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <daxlinux gmail com>
To: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc mit edu>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca and Firefox 3 - carret control


> I am in favour of being able to open combo boxes with the space bar. I
> however don't like to have to press something to start typing in a text
> box. If it's a text box, I should be able to just start typing into it.
> Having to press something to start typing in a text box is way too much
> like forms mode, and I am highly against any kind of forms mode.
>
> Live long and prosper,
> Lorenzo