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Re: Mobile: It's Not No Keyboard Trap, But What Is It?

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From: glen walker
Date: Sep 4, 2019 3:38PM

I partially agree with Steve. It *could* be a trap but hard to tell at the
moment. When swiping, I don't think an element gets a true "on focus"
event the same as if you were using a bluetooth keyboard, but I don't have
time to test that at the moment. There are too many variables at play here
such as whether it's a true native app or if it's using a UIWebView to just
get web content, whether a voiceover swipe generates the same event as a
bluetooth tab event, whether different events are generated on a UIWebView
(probably the same events that Safari would generate) or a native app
event, etc. But it sounds like the app must be trapping the event somehow
and preventing the focus from moving. It's been too long since I've
written native app code and the APIs have changed a lot since then so I'm
not sure how much control a developer has over the voiceover focus.



On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 7:15 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> That sounds like a keyboard trap to me. If you are using the app with a
> Bluetooth keyboard, it will not be possible to navigate away from the
> button.
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
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