Thread Subject: possible mouse-related standards,just to get started

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From: Barrett, Don
Date: Thu, Oct 19 2006 7:10 PM

I know I'm really jumping the gun here, but I am not as good as many of
you are in discussing theoretical constructs without the benefit of
concrete examples. I throw out the following standard to all of you to
ignore, beat up, modify, etc. as a possible adjunct to 21 A. I may be
totally on the wrong track and am happy to find that out as well.


When software is designed to run on a system that has a mouse or other
pointing device, product functions which involve the manipulation of
screen objects to support pictorial or graphical representations shall
be executable from a keyboard.

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