- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:50:01 -0500
- To: David Bolnick <davebo@microsoft.com>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 11:43 AM 16/02/98 -0800, David Bolnick wrote: >In IE the ACCESSKEY is assigned to the Alt so that is follows the >Alt+menu-mnemonic convension (as in selecting a menu from the menu bar). Is there any reason why ACCESSKEY does not work for me using IE 4.01 for Win95 at <http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/>? >Given that: If, for example, a 'Save' Button uses ACCESSKEY="s", then the >button text should be _S_ave (i.e., Save with the initial S underlined: ><u>S</u>ave). The browser should underline the character, not the author. If the author underlined it, users of non-supporting browsers and browsers with a different method of selecting an ACCESSKEY would be somewhat confused. Also keep in mind that the U element is deprecated in HTML 4.0. A more explicit implementation, and one that would allow for an access key not actually present in the label, would be for the browser to output [ALT-S] (for ACCESSKEY=S) before or after the form control. The my-layout-or-no-layout crowd would probably throw a fit, but it might be useful at least as a user option. In general, though, I'd rather as a user have the convention of my operating system used--for Windows, this would be underlining, but other operating systems may have different customs. -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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