- From: Sander <whatwg@juima.org>
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:21:40 +1100
Laurens Holst wrote: > That could have been implemented much better with Javascript, which > wouldn't require you to press ALT with the keys. And is often disabled. Plus, given the choice between adding one attribute (and a styling hook), or numerous line of javascript with all the cross-browser compatibility testing that entails - I know what I prefer to do. >>most users probably wouldn't know the >>functionality existed unless they were told about it, and even then >>they wouldn't use it most of the time. > > Do you think it is different for access keys? They are even more > useless. Most people have no clue about the existence of access keys, Based on feedback I've received on just that photo-album - from completely not computer-oriented people - I'd say that just a visual indication like that is enough to make them discoverable. Users have no clue that it's "accesskeys" they're using - but there's an underline just like in the menu, and they do know (barely) that they can hit alt-underlined letter to open the menu, so that's enough to get them to try it. > and when you do you still have to depend on the page's author to both > have 1. implemented them, and 2. indicated which keys to use. 1. goes for everything. 2. can be suggested in the spec to be something the useragent should do. (If not detected to have already been done by the page author.) > In any case, the access key should be suggestive, nothing more. As long as any such suggestions (which do not clash with the useragent) will work by default for the majority of users and will not have to be specifically approved, for that is not something the majority of users will ever do. Sander
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