[Bug 10775] New: how is user to decide which set of access keys to use?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10775

           Summary: how is user to decide which set of access keys to use?
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: RESOLVED
          Keywords: a11y
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: oedipus@hicom.net
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: ian@hixie.ch, oedipus@hicom.net, mike@w3.org,
                    public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org, public-html-a11y@w3.org


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

QUOTE cite="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/editing.html#the-accesskey-attribute"
   If specified, the value must be an ordered set of unique
   space-separated tokens, each of which must be exactly one Unicode code
   point in length.
UNQUOTE

PROBLEM 1: how does the user know that more than one set of access keys
is available?

PROBLEM 2: how does the user select the set of access keys to use?

PROBLEM 3: can the use switch from one set of access keys to another
should the first set be too complicated to use?  if so, how?

PROBLEM 4: when using more than one token to assign an accesskey to 
a unique element, must all the accesskey values contain the same number 
of tokens in order for the accesskey values to validate?  

PROBLEM 5: why use the phrase "unique space-separated tokens"? 
"unique space-seperated characters, each of which must be exactly
one unicode point in length"

--- Comment #1 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2010-09-28 06:54:42 UTC ---
Please file one problem per bug.

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Invalid use of bug system.

Looking at the specific problems:

PROBLEM 1: There is no set of access keys, just one key per accesskey'ed
element.

PROBLEM 2: The user agent selects the access key, not the user.

PROBLEM 3: There are no "sets" of access keys.

PROBLEM 4: no

PROBLEM 5: the phrase "unique space-separated tokens" implies certain
conformance requirements described in the infrastructure section.

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Received on Tuesday, 28 September 2010 06:54:44 UTC