Re: Keyboard Navigation Question - Mail Grid Headers

Hi Ana, normally the screen reader user doesn't want to move into the
header the behavior they expect is as follows:  

The user should be able to left and right arrow between the cells in the
table.  When he/she does this the screen reader will look at the header
above the cell with focus to determine which column has focus.  

Hope this helps  

Mike
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 17:08 +0100, Ana von Klopp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how to provide access to grid headers in a mail 
> grid via keyboard navigation.
> 
> When I read the instructions for a grid in
> 
> http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#grid
> 
> the suggestion is that tabbing into the grid should land on the first 
> cell, typically the grid header. However, for the email scenario, the 
> tabbing action should probably land on the row corresponding to the 
> first unread message or the most recent message (depending on the 
> listing order).
> 
> The instructions then suggest implicitly that arrow key navigation would 
> get you up and down, including up to the headers. However, that is not 
> appropriate for a mail grid, where the user should be able to retain the 
> message selection when they use the grid headers to resort the message 
> list.
> 
> I was trying to figure out what Thunderbird does, but I have as yet 
> failed to get to the message headers without actually clicking on them 
> :) HOME goes to the first message (not the headers) which seems like the 
> right thing to do, and using the up arrow from there does not do anything.
> 
> Appreciate any help, 
> 
> Ana
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