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

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Thu, Oct 19 2006 7:15 PM

//[Don Barret wrote] 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.//

Future systems may not have mice and may use some other pointing device, I
think we should stay away from this terminology. In addition, I believe you
revised standard does not address other scenarios for keyboard access.

Another issue that comes up regarding 1194.21N is keyboard access to
dynamically changing text in software applications. For example, the cpu
monitor in Windows. Text such as this that is dynamically changing but is
static text is often not accessible via the keyboard. In software we don't
have the benefit of a virtual cursor (except for the JAWS/WE cursor, which
may be dead soon when new versions of Windows move away from an OSM.

Jonathan

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