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| 8 | <book>
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| 9 | <bookinfo>
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| 10 | <title>&VBOX_PRODUCT;</title>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | <subtitle>Accessibility Reference</subtitle>
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <edition>Version &VBOX_VERSION_STRING;</edition>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <corpauthor>&VBOX_VENDOR;</corpauthor>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <address>https://www.virtualbox.org</address>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <copyright>
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| 21 | <year>2016-&VBOX_C_YEAR;</year>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <holder>&VBOX_VENDOR;</holder>
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| 24 | </copyright>
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| 25 | </bookinfo>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <chapter>
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| 28 | <title>Introduction</title>
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| 29 | <para>
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| 30 | Welcome to the <emphasis role="bold">VirtualBox Accessibility Support</emphasis> documentation! This document is primarily
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| 31 | a reference to help people who are interested in our project accessibility support and will describe how to use VirtualBox
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| 32 | user interface step-by-step. Since whole the application navigation will be explained here, this document will also be
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| 33 | helpful for those who are not familiar with our product user interface and wish to learn more. It will be written in a bit
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| 34 | excessive manner so that many obvious things will be explained too precisely to make it easier to understand by ear for a
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| 35 | blind users. The document will be periodically updated with recent changes and test-cases allowing us to more strictly
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| 36 | follow the required guidelines and make our product fully accessible.
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| 37 | </para>
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| 38 | <para>
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| 39 | Our application is based on Qt5, a powerful cross-platform library which allows to visualize various user interface ideas
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| 40 | the most flexible and native way. This also means that the library we use is responsible for many navigation and
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| 41 | accessibility aspects (like fonts, size hints, colors, look&feel patterns and many other things), but not for all of
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| 42 | them. Nativity as one of the main ideas of the Qt-based application sometimes brings additional complexity because there is
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| 43 | always at least one host which uses unique combination of fonts and colors which breaks accessibility support in an
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| 44 | unpredictable way.
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| 45 | </para>
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| 46 | <para>
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| 47 | Independently on platform we are supporting screen-reader applications which can communicate with Qt5 accessibility
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| 48 | interface which supports Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA), OS X Accessibility, and the Unix/X11 AT-SPI standard.
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| 49 | </para>
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| 50 | <para>
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| 51 | Our application user interface is able to be started in two modes:
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| 52 | <itemizedlist>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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| 54 | <para>
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| 55 | First of them is <emphasis role="bold">VirtualBox Manager</emphasis> user interface, the main application window
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| 56 | which allows to manage and configure virtual machines and their groups. Besides that, this window provides user with
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| 57 | access to various global and machine related tools allowing to administrate some of VirtualBox objects and their
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| 58 | settings.
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| 59 | </para>
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| 60 | </listitem>
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| 61 | <listitem>
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| 62 | <para>
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| 63 | Second application mode is <emphasis role="bold">Virtual Machine</emphasis> user interface, which allows to control
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| 64 | virtual machine guest screens as separate application windows. Besides that, this interface allows to access some of
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| 65 | machine tools and adjust guest screens up to your needs, by changing their resolution and toggling full-screen,
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| 66 | seamless and scaled modes.
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| 67 | </para>
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| 68 | </listitem>
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| 69 | </itemizedlist>
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| 70 | But first of all we should start from the <emphasis role="bold">General Concept</emphasis> which is related to whole the
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| 71 | GUI and summarizes the navigation and accessibility aspects we are using for whole application.
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| 72 | </para>
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| 73 | </chapter>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <chapter>
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| 76 | <title>General concept</title>
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| 77 | <para>
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| 78 | This chapter describes the general navigation and accessibility concept. We should note that not every detail of this
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| 79 | concept is already implemented and not every widget in our project already follows that concept. There is still large work
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| 80 | to be done in that regard. But in the end whole the project should correspond to this concept.
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| 81 | </para>
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| 82 | <para>
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| 83 | In short, every application window of our project should be navigated using the following approaches:
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| 84 | <itemizedlist>
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| 85 | <listitem><para>Mouse Navigation</para></listitem>
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| 86 | <listitem><para>Keyboard Navigation</para></listitem>
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| 87 | <listitem><para>Screen-reader Navigation</para></listitem>
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| 88 | </itemizedlist>
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| 89 | </para>
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| 90 | <sect1>
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| 91 | <title>Mouse Navigation</title>
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| 92 | <itemizedlist>
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| 93 | <listitem>
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| 94 | <para>
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| 95 | Each interactable widget can be focused with mouse (if that is not restricted by underlying host OS).
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| 96 | </para>
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| 97 | </listitem>
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| 98 | <listitem>
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| 99 | <para>
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| 100 | Each hovered interactable widget causes own tool-tip to appear.
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| 101 | </para>
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| 102 | </listitem>
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| 103 | <listitem>
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| 104 | <para>
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| 105 | Each tool-tip is given either in imperative mood (ex. "Create new virtual machine") or in short form (ex. "New").
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| 106 | </para>
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| 107 | </listitem>
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| 108 | <listitem>
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| 109 | <para>
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| 110 | Short tool-tip form is only used if context is obvious for a user.
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| 111 | </para>
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| 112 | </listitem>
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| 113 | <listitem>
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| 114 | <para>
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| 115 | Tool-tip can contain shortcut mentioned in parentheses.
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| 116 | </para>
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| 117 | </listitem>
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| 118 | <listitem>
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| 119 | <para>
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| 120 | Each hovered menu bar / toolbar action causes own status-tip to appear (if window have status-bar).
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| 121 | </para>
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| 122 | </listitem>
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| 123 | <listitem>
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| 124 | <para>
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| 125 | Each status-tip is given in imperative mood only.
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| 126 | </para>
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| 127 | </listitem>
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| 128 | <listitem>
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| 129 | <para>
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| 130 | TBD...
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| 131 | </para>
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| 132 | </listitem>
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| 133 | </itemizedlist>
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| 134 | </sect1>
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| 135 | <sect1>
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| 136 | <title>Keyboard Navigation</title>
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| 137 | <itemizedlist>
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| 138 | <listitem>
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| 139 | <para>
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| 140 | Each interactable widget can be focused with keyboard (if that is not restricted by underlying host OS).
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| 141 | </para>
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| 142 | </listitem>
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| 143 | <listitem>
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| 144 | <para>
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| 145 | Focusing is possible through tabbing or mnemonic navigation.
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| 146 | </para>
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| 147 | </listitem>
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| 148 | <listitem>
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| 149 | <para>
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| 150 | Each button and menu bar / toolbar action can be directly activated with keyboard.
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| 151 | </para>
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| 152 | </listitem>
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| 153 | <listitem>
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| 154 | <para>
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| 155 | Activation is possible via shortcut or mnemonic.
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| 156 | </para>
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| 157 | </listitem>
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| 158 | <listitem>
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| 159 | <para>
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| 160 | Each shortcut is configurable through application preferences.
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| 161 | </para>
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| 162 | </listitem>
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| 163 | <listitem>
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| 164 | <para>
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| 165 | Mnemonic mentioned above is underlined alphanumeric character which is a part of widget label (if widget has label).
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| 166 | Mnemonic being triggered in conjunction with the Alt key.
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| 167 | </para>
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| 168 | </listitem>
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| 169 | <listitem>
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| 170 | <para>
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| 171 | Each mnemonic is unique within the visible part of current application window, there are no collisions.
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| 172 | </para>
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| 173 | </listitem>
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| 174 | <listitem>
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| 175 | <para>
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| 176 | TBD...
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| 177 | </para>
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| 178 | </listitem>
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| 179 | </itemizedlist>
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| 180 | </sect1>
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| 181 | <sect1>
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| 182 | <title>Screen-reader Navigation</title>
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| 183 | <itemizedlist>
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| 184 | <listitem>
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| 185 | <para>
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| 186 | Each interactable widget can be focused with screen-reader cursor.
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| 187 | </para>
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| 188 | </listitem>
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| 189 | <listitem>
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| 190 | <para>
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| 191 | Each focused widget have clear name (or full description) in native user language.
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| 192 | </para>
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| 193 | </listitem>
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| 194 | <listitem>
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| 195 | <para>
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| 196 | Each button and menu bar / toolbar action can be directly activated through the screen-reader cursor functionality.
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| 197 | </para>
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| 198 | </listitem>
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| 199 | <listitem>
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| 200 | <para>
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| 201 | Each complex widget which has children (like list, tree, table and similar) is represented as closed group which
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| 202 | encapsulates it's children clearly.
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| 203 | </para>
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| 204 | </listitem>
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| 205 | <listitem>
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| 206 | <para>
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| 207 | While navigating user is able to skip any group without forcing to be entered inside.
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| 208 | </para>
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| 209 | </listitem>
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| 210 | <listitem>
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| 211 | <para>
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| 212 | Each group child can be a group itself with the same rules as above applicable.
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| 213 | </para>
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| 214 | </listitem>
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| 215 | <listitem>
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| 216 | <para>
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| 217 | Each text-field can be directly edited through the screen-reader cursor functionality.
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| 218 | </para>
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| 219 | </listitem>
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| 220 | <listitem>
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| 221 | <para>
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| 222 | TBD...
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| 223 | </para>
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| 224 | </listitem>
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| 225 | </itemizedlist>
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| 226 | </sect1>
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| 227 | </chapter>
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| 228 | </book>
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