| Title | Change of focus when a key is pressed in an input field (onkeypress) |
|---|---|
| Description | Document containing a text input field and a link; when the user types a character the link gets focus. The change of focus is described above the form. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (johannes.koch@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2007-01-12 |
| Status | accepted QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: input
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/interact/scripts.html#adef-onkeypress.
Standard ECMA-262 : ECMAScript Language Specification, 3rd edition (December 1999)
The test case is intended to fail even though the change of focus is described before the form.
The browser must be JavaScript-enabled.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#consistent-behavior-unpredictable-change.
The user initiated the change of context, but did not expect it to be connected to the user's action.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#consistent-behavior-no-extreme-changes-context.
Entering text into the input field causes a change of focus to a link.
See discussion in thread starting at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2007JanMar/0089.html.
The test case passes the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#consistent-behavior-no-extreme-changes-context.
The user initiated the change of context.
The user pressed a key, which initiated a change of focus.