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Re: Intuitiveness of JAWS jump to tabpanel shortcut for ARIA Tabs in FF?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 4, 2014 6:24AM

For the last 3 years I have mapped the JawsKey to capslock, both
because I mostly use laptops but also because I find some of the key
combinations easier to do.
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On 7/4/14, Léonie Watson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> "I've tried pressing Insert+Alt+M as instructed, and personally it's like
> trying to do finger gymnastics using both hands."
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> Some key commands come easily to the fingertips, but this one I always have
> to stop and think about before executing.
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> I'm guessing m is the chosen key because of the m for move mnemonic, but
> coupled with insert and alt, it's very awkward. It would be easier,
> physically speaking, if the chosen key was located on the left hand side of
> the keyboard, although I'm struggling to think of a user friendly mnemonic
> for any of the keys in that part of the board.
>
> Léonie.
>
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> @LeonieWatson Carpe diem
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 04 July 2014 09:24
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: [WebAIM] Intuitiveness of JAWS jump to tabpanel shortcut for ARIA
> Tabs in FF?
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> I was wondering how intuitive JAWS users find the shortcut for jumping to a
> tabpanel container when interacting with an ARIA Tab group in Firefox.
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> For example, if you visit
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> http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/ARIA%20and%20Non-ARIA%20Tabs/ARIA%20T
> abs%20(Internal%20Content)/demo.htm
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> Using JAWS in Firefox, arrowing to the currently open Tab will say the
> following "Use JAWSKey+Alt+M to jump to the controlled element".
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> (This occurs when you have aria-controls set on the Tab triggering element
> which then points to the newly rendered tabpanel
> container.)
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> So, on the Desktop layout, the JAWSKey is the Insert key, which is usually
> easiest to activate from the Numpad0 key.
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> I've tried pressing Insert+Alt+M as instructed, and personally it's like
> trying to do finger gymnastics using both hands.
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> Does anybody else find this difficult?
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