- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:02:39 +0000
- To: public-html@w3.org
Patrick Garies wrote: > Perhaps <button accesskey="O"><kbd>O</kbd>pen</button> with appropriate > CSS applied would be a better solution Hmm...interesting. Certainly "feels" more semantic. > 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). Apart from menu items (where it would read something like "Close Ctrl+W"), I don't think the modifier key is usually shown in applications (e.g. the actual "File" menu title, which sports an underline under the F without needing to clarify what the modifier is). This assumes that the particular application/page/document/etc follows platform conventions (e.g. on Windows ALT is the modifier key for menu item shortcuts, in all apps, so there's no need to specify that ALT needs to be used to activate a menu shortcut in the first place). As for the non-existent/already assigned case, that's one of the reasons why I'd tend to think that it should be up to the UA itself to give visual clues as to what accesskey assignment is currently in place. On UAs that don't support it, for some reason, the misleading visual clue simply won't be there, avoiding confusion. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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