Re: Should accesskey focus or activate?

Hi All,

The rule of thumb in Windows seems to be that access keys focus items which 
have selectable children, and activate items which have no children.  I 
think this seems intuitive.

Marc

At 04:18 PM 4/25/2001 -0700, Scott Luebking wrote:
>Hi, Aaron
>
>One approach would be to have two types of access keys.  If a control
>is assigned access key 'Z', the something like ctrl-shift-Z focuses
>and ctrl-alt-Z activates.  That way the user can make the determination
>at time of use.  This actual choice of ctrl, alt, etc should probably
>be configurable because of operating system and also access technology
>conflicts.
>
>Scott
>
>
> > Hello all, a Netscape developer wanted to know whether accesskey should
> > focus or activate controls, or whether it depends on the type of control.
> > Here's his question in detail: