What happens if I have multiple discontiguous rows selected and I option up arrow? Do all the rows get inserted one row above where the top selected row used to be? Probably the worst case scenario for complexity but something to consider.
CB Martin Pilkington wrote: > Hi All, > > I haven't posted for a while so for those who don't remember me, my > name is Martin and I'm a Mac software developer. I'm currently having > a problem with making one of my applications accessible, but in an > easy to use way. There is a lot of drag & drop functionality in my > application. Some of it is easy, such as using copy and paste to get > items from the library to the collections (like with putting songs > into playlists in iTunes). However, some of it is hard, such as re- > arranging items. You can do copy/cut and paste but this is a bit > awkward. I've also been pointed to how to do drag & drop with voice > over but to me that seems quite tedious. > > I believe I have a solution that seems to me like it would be a lot > simpler, but I wanted to get the opinion of some blind users about > whether they would find it more useful. The solution is that if you > hold down the option key and press the up or down arrow keys, it will > move the selected table rows up or down one place. To me it seems to > be a better way to re-arrange items with a keyboard for all users, but > the main aim of it is to improve accessibility. I will end up open > sourcing any solution and pushing for other developers to include it > in their applications so hopefully it can become some sort of a > standard. > > Any thoughts anyone has would be much appreciated. > > Thanks > > Martin > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
