Re: Changes to "Character Key Shortcuts" concern

Hi Kim,

I think we’re agreeing on the goal, but having different interpretations of the SC text.

> You always have to do a non single key shortcut first to get to the dropdown with, for example, a Tab. So the command sequence for choosing Massachusetts, for example, would be “Tab”,  “m”.

I read the SC text to mean that having moved the focus to the drop-down, “m” would be a single character shortcut, therefore would be banned without the exception. There are other ways of moving the focus, so it isn’t clear.


> If, however, a developer got the idea that it might be OK to use a single character key shortcut for focusing menu and allowed a user to navigate to a dropdown with, for instance, the single letter shortcut “s”, that would be a problem and would fall under the original wording.

If that short-cut applied anywhere on the page, I don’t think that falls under the exception. You would have to be focused on the menu first, then be able to use a single letter shortcut.

Cheers,

-Alastair