Re: Is keynav to unavailable menu items a bug?

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Aaron,

> It seems like there are 3 possibilities:
>
> 1. Keep Gnome and Mozilla different (as they are now)
> 2. Change Mozilla to act like Gnome (skip over unavailable menu items)
> 3. Change Gnome to act like Mozilla (arrow through all items)
>
> I think the answer could depend on the type of user. I expect that 
> screen reader users would want to arrow through all of the items, to 
> know what's there and what state the app is in. I would expect most 
> other users not to be as concerned with the decision.
>
> This makes me think that #3 is the best choice.

You've missed at least two options:

 4. Have Mozilla notice it is running on a GNOME desktop, and in that
    instance act like GNOME (as distinct from a "Linux desktop")
 5. Make Mozilla's menu behavior user-configurable

This last option works with the other four, making the choice of one of the 
other four simply the default choice.


I personally do not have a strong opinion this - one of the reasons I asked 
for feedback on these mailing lists.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team