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Re: Multi panel web editor frame.

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 4, 2018 5:37AM

The ARIA Authoring Practices Guide has documentation on a Window
Splitter widget:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/#windowsplitter
They have not completed a working example but there are links to some
GitHub issues that may provide more information.



On 4/3/18, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I've done this several times and made the dividers a tab stop. I'm not
> sure I understand how having them in the tab order makes other functions
> more difficult. When the focus is on the divider, you can use the arrow
> keys to adjust the size. I think we allowed pageup/down for bigger
> increments and the arrows for fine adjustments. You can put the divider
> anywhere you want in the DOM to control the tabbing order.
>
> Use the "separator <https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#separator>" role.
>
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Cohn < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are developing an editor that has three panels. Within limits the
>> panels can be adjusted in size by dragging a separator. I am wondering
>> about ways to make this functionality keyboard accessible. don't believe
>> it
>> would be a good idea to place the dividers in tab order, because this
>> would
>> make the access to standard functions more difficult. I thought perhaps
>> Code Pan or Fiddle might provide some guidance but could not find anything
>> there.
>>
>> Does anybody have I am looking for feedback on an appropriate design
>> choice.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jonathan Cohn
>> w
>> >> >> >> >>
> > > > >


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