Proposed new Customizationof shortcut SCs to reduce risk of accidental voice activation

Today Kim described the situation of end users who depend on speech.

Custom keyboard shortcuts in a web application or web page can collide with
voice use. if the user is not in a dedicated text field and the the
shortcut is say, "M" Then simply saying "Mary" will cause that shortcut to
activate. If there are 4 of 5 shortcut, sometimes the results can be very
bad if these shortcuts do significant things and more than one get
triggered. Users may feel they have a virus etc... that is causing all of
this interference on the web page.

Kim asked that all shortcuts to be customizable and allow up to 20
characters and also the ability to assign more than one shortcut for
different users of the same account.

Patrick expressed concern that that is a pretty high bar for developers,
and may get resistance.

I've thought of two SCs based on Kim's presentation that perhaps we "could"
require.

*SC x.x.x **Customized shortcut keys:* Each customizable keyboard shortcut
on the web page allows for a string of up to 20 characters to be assigned
to the shortcut.
*SC x.x.y Turn of shortcuts:* If shortcut keys are used on the web page, a
mechanism is available to turn them off.

Perhaps they could be combined into one. For developers who didn't create
customization of their shortcuts, there is a way to turn them off.
For developers who did create customization, there is a way to assign a
string rather than just a couple of keys to the shortcut.

*I put up a WIKI for them.*
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/mobile-a11y-tf/wiki/Customization_of_keyboard_shortcuts
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/mobile-a11y-tf/wiki/Turn_Off_keyboard_shortcuts

Thoughts?

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David MacDonald



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