- From: Patrick Garies <pgaries@fastmail.us>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:56:47 -0600
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > For human this markup: > <button><u>O</u>pen</button> > plus associated behavior has clear semantic value and > <button accesskey="^O">Open</button> > is just nothing - user simply has no clue about that accesskey. > > Information that is unknown to particular person has > semantic value of zero for that person, isn't it? Perhaps <button accesskey="O"><kbd>O</kbd>pen</button> with appropriate CSS applied would be a better solution than re‐animating the underline element. Of course, either way, the hint might not help the user much since the actual access keys would vary between UAs/hardware (e.g., modifier keys may be required (such as Alt or Alt+Shift) and/or the key(s) may already be assigned or non‐existent in particular software/hardware and, thus, ignored, re‐assigned, or simply execute multiple (possibly problematic) actions at once).
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