Tab to button after field?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Apr 26 11:10:58 EDT 2004


Jan Schenkel wrote:

> MacOS doesn't support focusing on a button control.

This was true in all versions of Mac OS until Panther, making it 
impossible to be compliant with the requirements of Section 508, the US 
federal accessibility guidelines which require software to allow all 
controls to be accessible from the keyboard.

Fortunately this has been corrected in Panther (see the Keyboard panel 
in System Preferences:  there's now an item labeled "Turn on full 
keyboard access").

Unfortunately, Rev's tranversalOn does not currently honor this setting 
on Mac OS.

Whether or not you deliver software to the blind or other groups for 
whom this feature is critical, if you have a chance at US government 
procurement know that until this feature is in place your Mac product in 
many cases cannot be considered for government purchases until this is 
supported.

I have logged this feature enhancement request to Bugzilla -- please 
consider voting for it:

<http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=1412>

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com       http://www.FourthWorld.com


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