Re: [orca-list] Native Drag and Drop

[_mallory <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 01:40:22PM +0000, Germano Corrêa wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I need to create a drag and drop widget in a web page, and I was wondering
> if there is any native support in Orca (or with other screen reader, web
> browser, etc) to drag and drop stuff using just the keyboard, or if I'll
> have to implement that manually.

Hi,
drag and drop has pretty bad support. Making them work with plain keyboard
is pretty doable, but unless both the browser and the screen reader realise
it's a type of application, it won't work intuitively very well.

I forget what Firefox does with Orca and NVDA exactly. I believe I had to 
manually go to browse mode to hear the names of all the available draggables
and drop points, then go into focus mode to be able to use Space to select
a draggable (enter drops).

I have a version I'm playing with for work, which is almost entirely the JS
of Brothercake. My modification is making the draggables a list of items. I'm
also not certain if I want to keep h2 headings for the names of the drop
targets-- I might want to rethink that. But anyway, play with it in Orca on
Firefox. If you have a Windows machine, try out NVDA + Firefox and NVDA + IE.

http://www.stommepoes.nl/work/k-12/dragndrop.html

cheers,
_mallory