Bug 72810 - Scroll bars do not always provide a keyboard equivalent for performing actions.
Summary: Scroll bars do not always provide a keyboard equivalent for performing actions.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Steve Northover CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2004-08-27 14:20 EDT by Michael J Mole CLA
Modified: 2004-09-09 09:35 EDT (History)
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Description Michael J Mole CLA 2004-08-27 14:20:06 EDT
Horizontal Scroll Bars lack the keyboard equivalent of Page Left, Page Right, 
Left Edge, and Right Edge in most places.  Ex. Navigator and Explorer Views 
such as Package Explorer and the Resource Navigator. (Note: The mouse 
functionality is found through the scroll bar’s context menu.)

  Vertical Scroll Bars lack the keyboard equivalent of "Top" and "Bottom" in 
most places.  Ex. Navigator and Explorer Views such as Package Explorer and the 
Resource Navigator. (Note: The mouse functionality is found through the scroll 
bar’s context menu.)
Comment 1 Kim Horne CLA 2004-08-31 12:40:20 EDT
These controls are handled by SWT... I dont know if UI can do anything to help
here.  Doug?
Comment 2 Douglas Pollock CLA 2004-08-31 12:42:17 EDT
Unfortunately, I don't know what you're talking about.  Could you give a more 
detailed description?  Also, what is "508" meant to indicate? 
Comment 3 Michael J Mole CLA 2004-09-07 12:05:42 EDT
508 indicates that this is an issue with the government mandate, Section 508.
Section 508 deals with the software's Accessibility requirements.

If you right click on any scroll bar, you will bring up a context menu that has
the following menu items: Top (Left Edge), Bottom (Right Edge), Page Up (Page
Left), Page Down (Page Right), etc.  For example, in the Resource Perspective,
you could click on the scroll bar located at the bottom of the Resource
Navigator view   to bring up the context menu.
Comment 4 Douglas Pollock CLA 2004-09-07 12:15:01 EDT
These context menus don't appear on Linux-GTK+.  I can only assume that they 
are some Windows-specific feature.... 
Comment 5 Steve Northover CLA 2004-09-09 09:35:59 EDT
The context menus are Windows specific.  The control in question (Tree) 
behaves exactly like the tree control in the Explorer.  For example, 
Ctrl+RightArrow scrolls the tree horizontally in both SWT and Explorer.