[Design] Selections without focus in Chandler

John Anderson john at osafoundation.org
Fri Oct 6 09:43:04 PDT 2006


> First, the only concern I would have is to make sure the gray color of 
> the text is always in contrast to the background color or you will 
> confuse people who have worse color vision than myself :)
Yes, readability is essential.
>
> Second - and this is a more general question, should the keyboard 
> focus always be where the attention of the user is?  I would think 
> that would be required if Chandler is to be used without a mouse.
Often, but not always, your attention goes to the part of the screen 
with the keyboard focus, e.g. the caret when you're typing.

However, the point of keyboard focus is to make it clear what is 
affected by typing or menu commands.



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