Re: onContextMenu Widget

On Thursday 11 September 2003 15:27, Mark Anderson wrote:
> Alex Russell wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 September 2003 13:11, Mark Anderson wrote:
> >>Also, keep in mind that in the Apple single-button world, there are even
> >>fewer users who understand control-click than there are users in the
> >>Windows world who understand right-click.
> >>
> >>So I'd be more in favor of a small visual anchor that brings up a
> >>normal popup menu on a normal click.
> >
> > Would the anchor's appearance be prompted by something? Or would this be
> > an always-visible portion of the UI?
>
> I suppose some leeway could be given to the designer :),
> but i would prefer something always visible.

Here's another (probably sub-standard) thought:

Could we have something that's a flag (perhaps in __config__) determine if 
there were some modifier key necessaray to make help hinting visible for an 
element? If globally off, the hints would be always available, if off, then a 
modifier key would be required to make them visible (hit ctrl for instance to 
unhide the things you click on to get help)

> >>That also provides a basis for a solution that could be made
> >>compliant with US Gov Section 508 1194.22I, for those who care about
> >>such things.
> >
> > What does this have to do with frames? What am I missing?
> >
> > http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/1194.22.htm
>
> Sorry, i meant L, not I.
> Nothing to do with frames. Has to do with user interface mechanisms that
> prevent usage by "reading" user agents that can't interpret script,
> for the blind.

My reading of this sounds like that we're pretty OK if we tie things to an 
onClick element, but kind of sunk if we do almost anything else. We can do 
the context menu from an onClick event and then just determine which mouse 
button was clicked. Does your reading of this put that approach in hot water? 
Does anyone have a screen reader to test this on?

Regards.

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Alex Russell
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