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Re: Regarding expected functionality for an ARIA editable data grid control

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Nov 11, 2013 2:00PM

I'll be happy to share it when complete.

In the meantime, I've discovered a few NVDA bugs that I'll need to report
later when I have the demos ready to go.

E.G

NVDA won't enter Applications Mode when encountering focusable Gridcell
elements within an ARIA Grid, not when Tabbing through active elements, nor
by pressing Enter on a focusable Gridcell, nor when the focus() method is
used to manually set focus to a Gridcell.

When in Browse Mode, you cannot use the table navigation commands such as
control+alt+Left/Up/Right/Down to navigate the cells within the ARIA Grid
table, even though the underlying markup is a standard data table with
correctly implemented headers .

When Applications Mode is manually invoked using Insert+Space, you can then
use the standard arrow keys and other commands to navigate the ARIA Grid,
however column header cells identified using the 'headers' attribute on the
Gridcell element are not announced when navigating left and right between
cells on the same row,
and when arrowing up and down between rows, adjacent cell content is
announced even though these extra cells do not have focus.

Confirmed using the latest public version of NVDA in Firefox.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Mauck" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Regarding expected functionality for an ARIA editable
data grid control


> Bryan --
> I agree that the focus should be on the first column of the last row, this
> sounds good, I'd be interested in the final results.
>