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Re: Google Chrome blocks accessibility for keyboard users. Your input is needed.

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From: Jonathan H
Date: Apr 18, 2014 2:42AM

Many, many thanks Steve. Wish I'd posted here 3 days ago! So much time
wasted fighting ignorance. Sigh.
On Apr 18, 2014 9:08 AM, "Steve Faulkner" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Jonathan, have starred and changed to regression bug, flagged as
> accessibility and ccd one of the google acc engineers.
>
> hope that helps.
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;
>
>
> On 18 April 2014 08:51, Jonathan H < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Hi; first posting here.
> >
> > To cut a month-long story short, it was brought to my attention by a
> > keyboard-only tester of a site I'm developing, that they cannot save
> > SOME of the files when using Google Chrome.
> >
> > After hours of testing between browsers, operating systems, trying
> > different doctypes etc, I finally ended up with this example page:
> > http://goo.gl/6oyiGc
> >
> > Forget about the fact that the links are just to pages; it makes no
> > difference, imagine they are files. Now try and download some of them
> > with the keyboard. Remember, you're saving the target, not the current
> > page.
> > "Save link as", not "save as". See the problem now?!
> >
> > Unfortunately, the developers of Google Chrome think being able to use
> > the browser if you're a keyboard user is a "feature request", removed
> > the "bug" tag and changed it to "feature request" and lowered the
> > priority.
> > Even though they agree that it used to behave correctly.
> >
> > Remember, the menu key should EXACTLY emulate a right mouse click
> > which of course blind/keyboard only users won't generally use. Any
> > difference is a problem; any difference which depends arbitrarily on
> > where in a list of words it is a bug.
> >
> > So would people mind taking a few moments to "star" this issue to give
> > it some weight, and maybe add a comment?
> > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=362147
> > You just need to be signed in with your regular Google/Gmail account.
> >
> > It's pretty much confirmed as a bug in my threads at
> >
> >
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23084579/how-can-i-diff-all-attributes-and-properties-of-two-dom-elements
> > and
> >
> https://forum.jquery.com/topic/can-i-use-jquery-to-export-compare-or-repair-a-dom-element-giving-trouble-in-one-browser
> >
> > PS - techy bit: If you're a bit handy with the Blink DOM renderer or
> > carry any weight in the accessible browser development community, your
> > input is greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks again.
> > > > > > > >
> > > >