Re: Accesskey: there are "techniques"?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gian Sampson-Wild (PurpleTop)" <gian@purpletop.com.au>
To: "'Charles Oppermann'" <charles@coppersoftware.com>;
<w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 11:18 AM
Subject: RE: Accesskey: there are "techniques"?


>
> The other problem with numbers is that at least one is used by a
screen
> reader: IBM Homepage Reader uses the numeral 1 to begin  reading in
> heading mode.  See: http://wats.ca/resources/accesskeys/19, which
> specifies that the only 'free' ascii keys are:
> AccessKey / (slash)
> AccessKey (backslash)
> AccessKey ] (right square bracket)
> Note: "At that point it was then pointed out (by Jukka "Yucca"
Korpela -
> a well respected accessibility expert) that even these keys would be
> inaccessible to users not using a North American Standard (QWERTY)
> keyboard"

Hum... also interesting the reference for the canadian government web
sites:

http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/clf-upe/6/skip_e.asp

At least... accesskey should be used or not? :-/

Received on Sunday, 28 September 2003 05:26:28 UTC