The keyboard plugin does indeed support arbitrary (and configurable) key 
bindings for activating elements. Supporting Jan's "1, 2, 3" shortcuts should 
be no problem, assuming it makes for a good, clear demo.

Colin

On 2010-10-22, at 9:25 AM, Jonathan Hung <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jan,
> 
> That's an excellent suggestion, but I don't think the keyboard plugin 
> supports hotkeys at the moment. We can add hotkeys separately, but may risk 
> confusing it with the functionality of the keyboard plugin. I think there was 
> some talk about hotkeys, but I'm not sure if that is a feature that is 
> planned. I would support the idea of adding hotkey support to the keyboard 
> plugin - it seems logical.
> 
> I think we should leave hotkeys out of the demo for now.
> 
> ---
> Jonathan Hung / [email protected]
> IDRC - Interaction Designer / Researcher
> Tel: (416) 977-6000 x3959
> Fax: (416) 977-9844
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Richards, Jan <[email protected]> wrote:
> For the star setting, maybe also allow pressing “1”, “2”...?
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jan
> 
>  
> 
> --
> 
> (Mr) Jan Richards, M.Sc.
> 
> [email protected] | 416-977-6000 ext. 3957 | fax: 416-977-9844
> 
> Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) | http://inclusivedesign.ca/
> 
> Faculty of Design | OCAD University
> 
>  
> 
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Hung
> Sent: October 21, 2010 3:37 PM
> To: Fluid Work
> Subject: Re: New keyboard accessibility plugin demo - Image Viewer design
> 
>  
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Attached is an updated wireframe for the keyboard plugin demo. The design is 
> essentially the same, but with a notable reduction in use of context messages 
> which now only appear for the 5-star widget and the keyboard instructions.
> 
> Please take a look at the design and let me know your thoughts!
> 
> - Jonathan.
> 
> ---
> Jonathan Hung / [email protected]
> IDRC - Interaction Designer / Researcher
> Tel: (416) 977-6000 x3959
> Fax: (416) 977-9844
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Jonathan Hung <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> With the date of the 1.3 release pushed back (Justin is going to send an 
> email about this shortly), we now have time to implement a new demo for the 
> keyboard accessibility plugin.
> 
> If following this email thread, this would be Option #1 mentioned in 
> Anastasia's email sent on October 18.
> 
> I will be updating the wireframes and will send the latest version to this 
> mailing list for feedback.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> - Jonathan.
> ---
> Jonathan Hung / [email protected]
> IDRC - Interaction Designer / Researcher
> Tel: (416) 977-6000 x3959
> Fax: (416) 977-9844
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Jess Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Nice!  I like the example.  And thanks AC for the link ;)
> 
> Jon, are you imagining if we go the direction of '2b' that we'd tighten the 
> example up a bit -- for instance, there is a lot of text on those pages that 
> isn't necessarily necessary for demonstrating the tab keyboard piece.  Or 
> perhaps I'm assuming it's just the interactions among the tabs that is 
> particularly interesting...
> 
> ?
> 
> J
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Jonathan Hung wrote:
> 
> > Hi Anastasia,
> >
> > I'm good with Option 2b and cleaning up the example where needed.
> >
> > - Jonathan.
> >
> > ---
> > Jonathan Hung / [email protected]
> > IDRC - Interaction Designer / Researcher
> > Tel: (416) 977-6000 x3959
> > Fax: (416) 977-9844
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Cheetham, Anastasia <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > Jon and I reviewed his Gallery Viewer mock-up this afternoon and discussed 
> > some tweaks to the keyboard interaction. I think this will be a good demo 
> > of the keyboard accessibility plug-in.
> >
> > Our question now is with the timeframe for implementing it. Justin's goal 
> > for code freeze is Wednesday this week i.e. two days. That's a bit tight to 
> > implement an exemplary demo from scratch. Justin favours postponing it to 
> > 1.4, but then that leaves us with the question of what to do for a 
> > keyboard-a11y plug-in demo for 1.3 (since the current portal demo is 
> > broken).
> >
> > So our options seem to be:
> >
> > 1) Focus on implementing an all-new demo, and get something completed in 
> > time for code freeze.
> >
> > 2) Postpone the new demo 'til the next release, and either
> >
> >  a) remove the current not-working portal demo (and put in a "Coming Soon" 
> > sign), or
> >
> >  b) use Colin and James' Philosophy Lesson demo as a temporary portal demo 
> > for 1.3, to be replaced in 1.4 with the Gallery Viewer.
> >
> > Personally, I favour option 2b, but I'm wondering what other people think.
> >
> > --
> > Anastasia Cheetham     Inclusive Design Research Centre
> > [email protected]            Inclusive Design Institute
> >                                        OCAD University
> >
> >
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