- From: Daniel Land <daniel.land@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:57:21 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
There's much debate between webmasters about whether access keys should or should not be implemented on a website. Access keys are very useful for many web users with accessibility needs, and many people depend on them being well implemented by websites; however, access keys interfere with some assistive technology devices by overriding the built-in/preset shortcut keys of such devices (which are probably what the assistive device users would prefer to use if given the choice). By scripting your website on the server-side with a language like PHP, ASP, JSP...etc., in order to support access keys by the user's request (via GET or POST variables) but with access keys disabled by default, this entirely counters the negative effects of access keys whilst making limited but considerable use of the positives. Has anyone else implemented this strategy? What do you think about the idea? Daniel Land Birmingham Web Development Partnership http://bwdp.org
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