Re: [orca-list] Native Drag and Drop

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

I wonder if the new region-speaking code under Orca might be modified to 
speak draggable/droppable regions too, if it doesn't already? I'd kind 
of like to implement this stuff in a project I'm hacking on.



On 03/30/2017 10:08 AM, _mallory wrote:
> 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
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