Re: [orca-list] Let's decide on live region re-bindings and move on :-)

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Joanmarie Diggs writes:
> 5. unbound: To be honest, I don't know how many live regions there are
> out in the wild. If there are a bunch of live regions out there, then I
> think we'd want to have existing bindings for them because from the
> new-user perspective, it's easier to discover what a binding is than to
> bind it. If no one is using live regions, then we could unbind them
> without much impact.
I believe we can expect more and more use of live regions, not less.
There are just too many ways that live regions make practical sense in a
visual interface. Note that their attraction is that the entire page
doesn't have to get reloaded--only the region in question. So much less
traffic over the Internet connection.

Furthermore, we've got support in all the major browsers--though I think
this is where we need support to be more robust for us. Between the AT
and the browser, it should be a bit easier to huristically identify live
regions and handle them appropriately. Especially, it is critical to
keep a frequently updating region from grabbing focus. My current
example of insufficiency here is the second by second clock ticking away
on the Federal Express "My Fed Ex" pages.


Janina

> So there you have it.... What would be awesome is if each of you could
> cast your vote for the replacement for next and previous live region. I
> plan to do the 2.31.1 tarball sometime on Sunday and would like to have
> the structural navigation binding issue completed for that release.
>
> Thanks (again and again and again) for all your input!
> --joanie
>
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