aloha, rob! i agree that a context menu and a popup are the same thing -- something which will be reinforced by the upcoming editor's draft of ARIA 1.0 where it is now categorically stated that a popup (as in aria-haspopup="foo") is a context menu; consult:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/comments/details?comment_id=326 gregory. ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, [email protected] Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Rob Gallo" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>, "'Alexander Surkov'" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], "'Hans Hillen'" <[email protected]>, "'Marco Zehe'" <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:26:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] hascontext state > I don't think there is a difference between a "context" menu and > a "pop-up" menu. There are no roles distinguishing between these > two types of menus. And even saying they are two types of menus > is specious. Some menus emanate from the menu bar, and some do > not. But after that, they're all the same. > > I am one user among many, but I don't feel a need for this. > > Thanks, > RG > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Pete Brunet Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 2:18 PM To: > Alexander Surkov Cc: accessibility- > [email protected]; Hans Hillen; Marco Zehe Subject: > Re: [Accessibility-ia2] hascontext state > > That seems like a good idea. What do others think? -Pete > > Alexander Surkov wrote: > > Hi. > > > > It might be handy to have hascontext state to indicate the accessible > > has associated context menu. I realize it's very usual for sighted > > users to right mouse click everywhere checking for context menu. > > However it sounds it's not very comfortable for AT users to press > > shift+F10 on every element. This leads AT users might not know there > > is context menu. If we would have hascontext state then the thing must > > be much easier since AT could announce the context menu presence like > > it happens for popup menus. What do you think? > > > > Thank you. > > Alex. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Accessibility-ia2 mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linux- > foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
