[Xerte] How to disable the Tab key as the "Accessablility" key?

[Paul Swanson]

Patrick, your email did make it. I just wasn't clear on what I should do. I am having success with iconID.tabEnabled=false to get rid of the yellow border around text and graphics on individual icons (I'll leave interactions alone). So thanks for that! I was hoping there was something global I could do ...

Dave, _global._focusrect = false; looked promising, but not having any luck getting that to work (I also tried rootIcon._focusrect). Too bad, it's that focus rectangle that I really want to get rid of. Or just change the color. Maybe I'll post something to the AWARE/eLearning listserv. Maybe Jason Merrill will know; he seems to be very Flash savvy.

Thanks for all the help!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:56 AM
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] How to disable the Tab key as the "Accessablility"
> key?
> 
> Did my email not make it?
> 
> As far as I am aware the yellow border is not a xerte thing, it's a
> flash thing.
> 
> There is a xerte keyword property selectable, but there is nothing in
> the help on what it does and it's not given any obvious specific
> functionality in the code other than the syntax highlighting.
> 
> I tried setting it to false, and also setting tabEnabled to false, but
> that only works on text areas.
> 
> textareanode.tabEnabled=false is as far as I know with this
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
> Sent: 03 August 2009 16:31
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] How to disable the Tab key as the "Accessablility"
> key?
> 
> Hi Alistair,
> 
> Thanks for those comments. I agree that accessibility is important and
> needs to be maintained. I don't think it would be an issue for this
> course (a tutorial on using one of our software programs), however,
> because the interaction that I have on these pages is an onKeyDown
> event which works for the Tab key as well as any other key. I have been
> placing "Press any key to continue" text on the screen, but was asked
> to change that to "Press the Tab key to continue" to reinforce to our
> customers that using the Tab key is more efficient than using the
> mouse, and ensures that no required fields are missed. However,
> pressing the Tab key also places a yellow border around images and
> text. It's the border that I would actually like to get rid of. So I
> guess I should have used a subject line of "How can I change the color
> of the accessibility highlight border?" Changing it to the same color
> as my background will accomplish what I want.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be a property I can set in the Xerte interface
> panels, but I figure there is some property I could set in my setup
> script. rootIcon.accessibilityBorderColour = 0xD4E1EE or something like
> that would do fine. I just need to know what the property is. Does
> anyone know?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> _____________________________
>  Paul Swanson
>  Instructional Designer
>  Harland Financial Solutions
>  Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com
> _____________________________
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
> > bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
> > Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 2:23 PM
> > To: Xerte discussion list
> > Subject: RE: [Xerte] How to disable the Tab key as the
> "Accessablility"
> > key?
> >
> > Hi Paul
> > If you reassign the accessibility key I'd suggest you take care to be
> careful to let users know the alternative key that's assigned in its
> place.
> Xerte is getting widely known and one of the reasons it's taking off in
> education is the high level of accessibility. If a non-mouse user was
> to come across a Xerte based resource where keyboard access had been
> knowingly removed they might be minded to invoke DDA legislation
> against the service provider. By all means enjoy tweaking, adapting and
> providing alternative clever ways of delivering accessibility but
> reduce it at your peril.
> 
> 
> Alistair McNaught
> Senior Advisor for Further Education
> JISC TechDis service
> The Higher Education Academy Building
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