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Re: arrow key navigation in accessible menu

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From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Dec 8, 2010 2:00AM

Hello Adam,
Can you Access the Menu items in the desk top applications only with
"Tab" key?
Certainly you need to use "Tab" key to jump between menus, and Arrow keys
help you to navigate between menu items which is currently in Focus.
The same is applicable to Rich internet application Menu.
For example if you are having hundred navigation links, Certainly you don't
put all these links in the navigation, you'll catagorise them and place them
in a Menu format.
Now coming to Keyboard accessibility, when a user wants to Access the Third
menu in the serial, he needs to use tab so many times.If you make the same
similar to desk top, the user can get that with 3 tabs, and he can navigate
the menu items using arrow keys.

Now coming to JAWS 9.0 issue, it has lack of ARIA support(the techniques
used to make rich internet applications Accessible).
Thanks and Regards,
Jeevan
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:57 PM, adam solomon
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Is arrow-key navigation necessary for an accessible menu?
> To the best of my knowledge, arrow key navigation won't work with Jaws 9
> because those keys are reserved for Jaws (correct me on this if I'm wrong).
> If so, and if the answer to the first question is yes, what is the
> solution?
>
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