- From: Mirabella, Mathew J <Mathew.Mirabella@team.telstra.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:42:36 +1100
- To: "'W3C WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines list'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
All. A further query and item for discussion. Excluding the provision of a separate page with a list of accesskeys, how do you highlight the fact that keyboard accesskey shortcuts are available without making dramatic changes to a page. An example: <label for="username">Username:</label> <input name="username" id="username" type="text" value="" size="30" tabindex="1" accesskey="u"> I have seen one way to indicate to users that there is a keyboard shortcut combination. Place some text on the page explaining the alt-combination shortcuts, and also underline the respective character in the text of the label. What are your thoughts on the following example of underlining characters. ...<span style="text-decoration: underline;>U</span>sername... This is, of course, visual, and not descriptive to a screen reader user. So there are problems with doing this without non-visual equivalents. It would also be a problem with links, as link text is supposed to be underlined. Maybe you could use a bolded character instead of an underlined character? What do you all think? Cheers. mat. Mat Mirabella Telstra Research 03 9253 6712
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