Opened 14 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#6623 closed Bug (wontfix)

Colors dialog: up/down arrow keys not working as expected

Reported by: Wiktor Walc Owned by:
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: Accessibility Version: 3.0
Keywords: Discussion Cc:

Description

In the first colors dialog that appears straight after pressing "Text Color" or "Background Color" button, the up/down keyboard arrow keys doesn't work as expected - pressing the down key moves to the next color on the right side instead to the next color in the line below.

It looks like it never worked properly.

Change History (10)

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by Garry Yao

Component: GeneralAccessibility

This's an a11y v.s. u7y problem, as for disabled people, the color panels are presented as list.

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by Frederico Caldeira Knabben

Based on that we should guarantee the list navigation to be in line with accessibility standards. If the arrow keys are not used for that, we can consider having them used for visual navigation.

comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by Garry Yao

Keywords: Discussion added

@Fred, I don't understand how to tackle both in an acceptable way

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by Piotrek Koszuliński

I also don't have an idea how could this work. If person using screen reader will press down key (instead of right) he will jump to the next line, unless we'd discover what this person really meant (is he using screen reader or not).

comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by Piotrek Koszuliński

Status: newpending

comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by Jakub Ś

At first this doesn't sound very professional but if there is no other way, perhaps we could provide two sets of keys like in computer game ;)

Visually impaired could use arrows while other users W, A, S, D :). Of course some explanation in docs why arrows work differently

This's an a11y v.s. u7y problem, as for disabled people, the color panels are presented as list.

should be provided.

I don't think anyone will agree but this way we can have both and many users are familiar with using WASD for "navigation".

comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by Piotrek Koszuliński

Come on... I would never thought about using WSAD :P Never, ever :D

comment:8 Changed 12 years ago by Jakub Ś

That is why you should read docs to know this or perhaps dialog could provide such hint.

I knew you won't agree thus I have proposed this as "if there is no other way" :P

Last edited 12 years ago by Jakub Ś (previous) (diff)

comment:9 Changed 12 years ago by Wiktor Walc

There is no point in adding shortcuts that noone will use. As a user I'd not use anything else than arrow keys to cycle through colors. It's possible to change colors using arrow keys already, so unlike e.g. with magicline, there is no need to introduce another hard-to-guess shortcut.

comment:10 Changed 12 years ago by Piotrek Koszuliński

Resolution: wontfix
Status: pendingclosed

I agree. Closed.

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