- From: Chaals McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:21:19 +0100
- To: "Dominic Mazzoni" <dmazzoni@google.com>, "Rich Schwerdtfeger" <richschwer@gmail.com>
- Cc: "James Craig" <jcraig@apple.com>, "John Foliot" <john.foliot@deque.com>, "ARIA Working Group" <public-aria@w3.org>
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:13:10 +0100, Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought about your comments overnight and another deficiency in > accesskey came up and it has to do with context. > > Take the ‘L’ to like issue … +1 for Google+. You could be on a page feed > with a lot of likes (e.g. Facebook). We would really need for it to > apply to the current context and not be just a page-wide access key > (with activate capabilities). ... > 3. We allow the author to override the accesskey with script whereby we > associate access keys and threat them as page wide and the author is > allowed to have a handler that handles the event. I had thought about doing this the other way around - essentially the HTML5 proposal for a "command" element which would fire a script, and which could be given an accesskey. > This last hybrid model would allow greater functionality and leave the > keyboard arbitration issues to the user agent. Yes, apparently that was Hixie's goal with the command idea. But as always, we're dependent on implementation. cheers -- Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex chaals@yandex-team.ru - - - Find more at http://yandex.com
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