Re: [orca-list] Keybindings for ARIA landmark roles

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Krishnakant:

The content provider provides the landmarks as part of the markup.  What 
the Orca feature does is allow the users to navigate between them quickly.

Will

Krishnakant wrote:
> Hi wil,
> So you mean the user will set the landmarks as per the need and
> preference and then orca should move to those landmarks is it?
>
> Is this not what bookmarks feature does?
>
> or is that orca will decide on some logical decision?
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:29 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hey All:
> >
> > I need your input.
> >
> > Right now, we have two unbound functions in Orca to jump to the previous 
> > and next ARIA landmark.  The main purpose of a landmark is to help 
> > identify portions of a web page that are of some typical interest to a 
> > user.  For example, the "search" area, the "navigation" area, the "main 
> > content" area, etc., can all be landmarks.  See 
> > htp://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#landmark for more info.
> >
> > To avoid cluttering the keymap, we've not bound these two functions to 
> > key combinations in Orca.  I've received a few requests, however, to 
> > provide default keybindings for them.
> >
> > An example use of landmarks is at http://wiki.codetalks.org.  If you 
> > want to try them out:
> >
> > 1) Give the Firefox window focus
> > 2) Press Ctrl+Orca+Space to bring up the Firefox-specific preferences 
> > for Orca
> > 3) Go to the Keybindings Tab and define bindings for the next and 
> > previous landmark functions.
> >
> > The 'l' and 'Shift+l' bindings are taken for navigating between list 
> > items, but 'm' and 'Shift+m' seem to be free.  I'm curious about your 
> > thoughts on using these keybindings for navigating between landmarks. 
> > 'm' would take you to the next landmark in a page and 'Shift+m' would 
> > take you to the previous landmark.
> >
> > Will
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