Hi Chris,

All rows get nudged up one space. When you reach the top or bottom of  
a table then they get nudged together. For example, if you have rows 2  
and 4 selected and hit shift-option-up then the they will move up to  
be rows 1 and 3. Then if you hit shift-option-up again row 1 won't  
move as it is at the top but row 3 will, so they will now be rows 1  
and 2.

I have a sample application up at http://dropbox.mcubedsw.com/M3TableView.zip 
  . As I said, once you have selected some rows you just hit shift- 
option and either the up or down arrow to shift the rows up or down.  
Hopefully it feels easier than current methods.

Martin

On 27 Jul 2009, at 10:05 pm, Chris Blouch wrote:

>
> 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
>>
>>>
>>
>
> >


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