- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:09:34 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Jim Ley wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:14:30 +0300, Kai Hendry <hendry at cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: >> 1) Users can not easily tell what the accesskeys are. > > Their UA should do a better job of informing them. Agreed; WA1 will probably give some way of automatically indicating access keys. (I haven't really looked at this yet, hence the empty section.) >> 2) Accesskeys can conflict with the UA binds. > > Their UA should do a better job of picking a key combination to > activate them that doesn't interfere with their default UA binds. > > There's lots of possible modifier keys available to a UA - why override ALT. Unfortunately there really aren't that many modifiers available, and ALT is (on Windows) the standard for this kind of thing. > Yes AccessKey isn't that well specified, but I think it can be fixed > rather than completely removed. Do you have any concrete suggestions? I've been looking at the feedback the CSS group got on key-equivalent (which was removed from CSS3UI due to the number of problems it had) and I'm not sure I see a good solution that scales cross-platform and cross-device. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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