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Re: Making hover functionality available for keyboard users

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From: Mallory
Date: Aug 1, 2019 4:27AM

Ajay,
without knowing anything about your charts, one idea is to allow the entire chart to be focusable as a single Tab stop (this means it would need an accessible name of some sort), then allow Arrow keys to move focus around the data points. Another Tab would move keyboard focus out of the chart. A Shift-Tab would move focus out of the chart backwards.

This might not be a great idea if the chart has like a gazillion data points.

Visible clear instructions for this keyboard setup is necessary. Can't expect people to know how this might work.

cheers,
Mallory

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, at 11:28 PM, Ajay Sharma wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are working on some charts that displays the values upon mouse
> hover on the line chart. Kindly let me know your thoughts on making
> this functionality for keyboard users.
>
> On 7/31/19, Mike Warner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > we've got a website redesign in process and when I pointed out contrast
> > issues where we're not completely AA complaint, I was asked this:
> >
> > "To what degree can we rely on a browser's high contrast mode? When I turn
> > on chrome's high contrast mode, it solves any contrast issues the pages may
> > have had. Do we need a policy for such a thing? "
> >
> > I'd prefer to be at least AA as a minimum, but wanted to get expert
> > opinions. I couldn't find anything that directly answered the question in
> > my searches on the google.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Mike
> >
> > Mike Warner
> > Director of IT Services
> > MindEdge, Inc.
> > > > > > > > > >
>
>
> Thanks!
> Ajay
> > > > >