- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:29:21 -0700
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jul 3, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Karl Dubost wrote: > > Le 4 juil. 2007 à 02:22, Maciej Stachowiak a écrit : >> 3) How does work on phones that are all touchscreen and don't even >> show an onscreen keyboard most of the time? > > these devices are not really usable for some categories of > accessibility. > Tactile feedback is for example important for some users. The use of accesskey cited doesn't appear to be for accessibility purposes, just as a handy shortcut on a device with the typical phone keypad layout. I think my main comment on accesskey would be that we should approach it like other features under recent discussion - start with the problem and requirements, not the solution. accesskey may currently be workable for device-specific content on a single class of devices. But our charter calls for HTML5 to be "a platform-neutral and device-independent design". So if keyboard/keypad shortcuts are an important use case, let's see if we can come up with something more device-independent than the accesskey of today, which is pretty much a failure on this front. To do that, we'll need to start by understanding the requirements. Cheers, Maciej
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