Re: aria-kbdshortcuts feedback

Dominic's feedback has convinced me we have enough justification to keep the aria-kdshortcuts feature. 

However, these things should happen prior to publishing:

1. Name changed to something uncontracted (e.g. not 'kbd') to match existing ARIA conventions. (hotkeys or keyshortcuts, perhaps?)
2. Clarify who the RFC-2119 requirements apply to.
3. Editorial: Clean up the informative prose, add [ARIA 1.1] to the description, and fix "Ctrl" examples to match "Control" ENUM specified in KeyboardEvent.
3. Dominic requests review with i18n team at Google.
4. I will request review with i18n team at Apple.
5. Optional: other vendors (Mozilla, Microsoft) check on the i18n impacts as well.
6. Someone (likely Rich as Chair?) emails relevant W3C i18n group(s) outlining the issues (cc public-aria) and requesting review.

Thanks,
James


> On Feb 24, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:14 PM James Craig <jcraig@apple.com <mailto:jcraig@apple.com>> wrote:
> In addition, an accesskey replacement spec would have the ability to specify end use behavior (and event model changes) in a way that would be inappropriate to do in an ARIA spec. Dominic, would you be willing to pursue the solution in that spec rather than in ARIA?
> 
> I took a closer look. Current limitations of the accesskey spec that I see:
> 
> 1. It doesn't require the user agent to activate the element, it's allowed to just focus it. That means that if a web app currently has shortcuts that activate something, switching to accesskey wouldn't achieve the same thing.
> 
> 2. Accesskey still only allows you to specify a single key, the user agent chooses the modifier keys. This wouldn't help a web app that wants to trigger when you press an unmodified key, or a web app that wants to listen for a specific shortcut.
> 
> Here are some examples of real-world shortcuts on six popular sites:
> * 'C' to compose a new message in Gmail/Inbox
> * Ctrl+Shift+C to do a Word Count in Google Docs
> * Shift+A to "reply all" in Yahoo Mail
> * 'L' to like the current story on Facebook
> * '/' to focus the search box on Twitter
> * 'C' to create an issue on GitHub
> 
> The accesskey spec doesn't support *any* of these.
>