- From: John Foliot - WATS.ca <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:56:34 -0500
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>, <webaim-forum@list.webaim.org>
More Accesskey news via GAWDS - apologies for those who may have already seen this. JF - the Accesskey guy <wink> -- John Foliot foliot@wats.ca Web Accessibility Specialist WATS.ca - Web Accessibility Testing and Services http://www.wats.ca Phone: 1-613-482-7053 **************** mikecherim wrote: > Hello group, > > I think this may be of interest to you guys. > > At Accessites.org we are offering accesskeys by way of a PHP script > [1] so users can set their own to better meet their needs (thanks to > Gez, Rich, Thierry, and Dan). > > We *had* default values assigned to the 6 keys we offered, using > numbers 0-5. > > This morning someone tried to contact us and mentioned that even > these values provided problems for him. The person noting this is > using Windows, but has a character in his name. To write the unusual > character his name in our contact form, he has to use alt+0228. This > spawned a page turn thus interrupting his use of our form. > > We have reset all of our accesskeys to null values by default, but > users can still go in a set them if they want to. > > This was news to me, but another real-world case on how they can > interfere, even with scripting allowing customization. > > [1] http://accessites.org/settings/#customkeys > > Sincerely, > Mike Cherim > http://green-beast.com/ > http://accessites.org/ >
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