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

​​I've moved my proposals to the bottom of your page so it's all together.

I think it will be a stretch to force devs to make every hard coded
shortcut a customizable shortcut that accepts a string. But I'm fine with
trying to push it through if its technically  possible. It appears Jonathan
is saying its quite complicated.

We should however, have a fallback position that helps solve the problem of
colliding keys and VR systems, if the original proposal is rejected.

Cheers,
David MacDonald



*Can**Adapt* *Solutions Inc.*
Tel:  613.235.4902

LinkedIn
<http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmacdonald100>

twitter.com/davidmacd

GitHub <https://github.com/DavidMacDonald>

www.Can-Adapt.com <http://www.can-adapt.com/>



*  Adapting the web to all users*
*            Including those with disabilities*

If you are not the intended recipient, please review our privacy policy
<http://www.davidmacd.com/disclaimer.html>

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Kim Patch <kim@redstartsystems.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Here's the wiki page where we've started work on speech-related SC's
>
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/mobile-a11y-tf/wiki/Speech_Input_Accessibility_(Guideline_2.7)
>
> My hesitation with encouraging developers to simply allow users to turn
> off single key shortcuts is it leaves some users behind. If the single key
> shortcut is the only way to do something it's cutting a group of users off
> from functionality.
>
> Cheers,
> Kim
>
>
> On 7/21/2016 12:36 PM, David MacDonald wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> Cheers,
> David MacDonald
>
>
>
> *Can**Adapt* *Solutions Inc.*
> Tel:  613.235.4902
>
> LinkedIn
> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmacdonald100>
>
> twitter.com/davidmacd
>
> GitHub <https://github.com/DavidMacDonald>
>
> www.Can-Adapt.com <http://www.can-adapt.com/>
>
>
>
> *  Adapting the web to all users*
> *            Including those with disabilities*
>
> If you are not the intended recipient, please review our privacy policy
> <http://www.davidmacd.com/disclaimer.html>
>
>
> --
> ___________________________________________________
>
> Kimberly Patch
> President
> Redstart Systems
> (617) 325-3966
> kim@redstartsystems.com
>
> www.redstartsystems.com
> - making speech fly
>
> Blog: Patch on Speech
> +Kim Patch
> @RedstartSystems
> www.linkedin.com/in/kimpatch
> ___________________________________________________
>