Accesskey Deprecation from Steven Edwards on 2008-01-23 (public-html-comments@w3.org from January 2008)

From: Steven Edwards <cureadvocate@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:00:52 -0500
To: public-html-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <479780D4.7060901@gmail.com>

As a user who has trouble accessing the mouse, the deprecation of the 
accesskey attribute (with no stated replacement) concerns me.  The 
attribute makes accessing links hidden under DHTML menus a breeze on the 
few sites that support it.

Granted, keyboard functionality can be implemented with Javascript, but 
that approach suffers from one major problem: it requires disabled users 
to browse with Javascript enabled, leaving them open to potential 
security vulnerabilities.

If it counts for anything, I vote to keep the accesskey attribute in HTML5.

Steven

Received on Wednesday, 23 January 2008 19:15:28 UTC