RE: Action-2036 aria-keyshortcuts



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>WRT user agent conflicts, most browsers use ctrl+s for saving the page, but
>lots of online editors use ctrl+s to save the online document in the cloud. This
>does not create any loss of user agent functionality because it is very easy and
>efficient to use a browser menu to navigate to the user agent function.

If you handle a key event in a script and prevent the default action, is this guaranteed to override whatever the user agent assigns to that key combination? If so, then I would agree with Matt that it's a question of author guidance.

Some screen readers, on the other hand, aren't good at avoiding key combinations likely to be used by applications, which is a reason for using role="application" where necessary and for users to be aware of "pass-through" commands. I think this issue deserves a cautionary note in the spec.

VoiceOver under OS X and ChromeVox are particularly good at assigning commands to key combinations that applications are unlikely to use.


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Received on Thursday, 7 April 2016 20:03:33 UTC