[Design] Selections without focus in Chandler

[Mimi Yin]

John came up with the solution of allowing a 2nd click on a  
collection to shift focus to the sidebar. As for accessibility, we  
plan to support navigation between panes with the tab key, so there  
will be a solution for those folks as well :O)

On Oct 6, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Mike Taylor wrote:

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> On Oct 6, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
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>> Hi Bear,
>>
>> Just to clarify, are you asking why the focus doesn't  shift to  
>> the sidebar when you single-click a collection?
>>
>> Here's some background on this issue: http:// 
>> lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-January/003759.html
>>
>> Brief summary: when a user clicks on a collection in sidebar, that  
>> does not necessarily mean that their mental focus has shifted to  
>> the sidebar. In fact more often than not, their focus remains in  
>> the summary pane and they are simply manipulating the sidebar as a  
>> way to change what they see in the summary pane.
>>
>> Especially in email clients, people have reported repeatedly,  
>> mistakenly using the arrow keys to navigate in the summary table  
>> view after switching folders, only to find that the keyboard focus  
>> shifted to the sidebar when they clicked to change views...
>> + which can be very jarring because your main view changes; and
>> + slow because your rapidly flipping through whole collections of  
>> items, rather than individual items
>>
>> But again, not sure if this was your question...
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> sorry for being obtuse in my question!
>
> My purpose in asking was to make sure that the focus was truly  
> pointing to what the user wants focus to be on - like you said  
> above about having the focus be on the items *in* the collection  
> and not the collection text itself in the sidebar.  The reason I  
> was asking was that yesterday I started to think about how Chandler  
> would behave when used by someone using a screen reader or other  
> tools used for accessibility.
>
> But that is something that I know has been thought about and won't  
> happen till later so the second part of my question I'll withdraw  
> till alter :)
>
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