- From: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:37:59 -0400
- To: "Steven Pemberton" <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>, "WAI GL" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <w3c-html-wg@w3.org>
Steven, Looking on the WAI lists, I see a variety of responses, particularly in the thread started by Aaron Leavanthal on 24 April 2001. [1] For example: Gregory Rosmaita thinks it should be user configurable. [2] Masafumi Nakane thinks we should take a conservative approach and *not* activate. [3] Kelly Ford makes a distinction between a button (activate) and a link (focus). [4] I would ask the UAWG. They have a variety of test suites for accesskey [5,6] and UA behavior is the primary topic of UAAG. --wendy [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2001AprJun/0241.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/1999OctDec/0725.html [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2001AprJun/0274.html [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2001AprJun/0253.html [5] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/TS/html401/cp0101/0101-ACCESSKEY.html [6] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/TS/html401/ At 10:52 AM 9/27/02, Steven Pemberton wrote: >Editing the XHTML 2 spec, I came across something I wasn't sure of. > >If an access key is on a link, should the access key take you to the link, >where you must then activate the link (with return or space or whatever), or >should it immediately follow the link. > >HTML 4 says follow the link, but I note that UAs aren't consistent here. My >personal feeling is that the link should get focus, so that you can then >decide what to do with it, but I'd like to hear from WAI people. > >Thanks! > >Steven Pemberton -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative seattle, wa usa /--
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