172641 - Obey Keyboard Preferences tab key highlight setting in content area

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 160387

(Camino Graveyard :: Accessibility, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Ulrich]

The way how the tab key works can be set systemwide in 10.2. In the keyboard
preferences, under "Full Keyboard Access" there is an option "Highlight Text
boxes and lists only - Highlight any control".

When the first option is selected, the tab key highlights only few things
(similar to OS 9), while the latter option higlight everything (similar to Windows).

The way chimera works now is that it's always in "highlight everything" mode,
not yet taking the new system settings into account.

I suggest that the system options should be respected.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Michael, what build ID are you reporting this bug against?

Comment 2

[Michael Ulrich]

Build ID is 2002.09.30.04

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

To what extent do other OS X Apps observe this setting?

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

Reassigning to Accessibility.

Comment 5

[Michael Ulrich]

> To what extent do other OS X Apps observe this setting?

Preferences does it fully. Most other Apps are still adapting to it, because
it's a new thing in Jaguar (I think)

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

No, those options are available in 10.1.5, as well.

Comment 7

[Michael Ulrich]

Sorry, my mistake. I tried a few Apple apps to see how well this is 
implemented in them:

System setting is respected:
Finder 10.2, Mail 1.2, iPhoto 1.1.1, TextEdit 1.2, Terminal 1.3.1, 
Addressbook 3.0.1, OmniGraflle 2.0.8, iCal 1.0, Preview 2.0

Not respected:
iTunes 3.0.1, DVD Player 3.2, Quicktime Player 6.0.1, Acrobat Reader 
5.0.5

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using Chimera/2002100304 on 10.1.5, in that the setting doesn't apply
to the content area. The setting *does* apply to all Cocoa chrome areas, such as
the Toolbar and Preferences.

Obviously this doesn't work in Mozilla either.

Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

The problem here is that there isn't a good mapping into focussable things in
the content area. Should the 'All controls' setting focus links? See also bug
160387.

Comment 10

[Derek Schrock]

*** Bug 203579 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Josh Aas]

There is a patch I wrote that does almost what you want on bug 160387 - though
it doesn't follow system prefs. It adds a pref UI to Camino that allows the
users to choose tab behavior.

Comment 12

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

this should be resolved by 160387

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160387 ***