- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:09:43 +1000
Simon Pieters wrote: > I've spoken to a person who is blind about HTML5 and accessibility. I > thought I'd send some of his thoughts to the list. > ... > He also says that he accesskeys shouldn't be dropped. Accesskey implementations need to be seriously improved if they are to be retained. There's significant evidence to show that there are very few, if any, safe keys available which don't clash with existing shortcut keys in browsers. http://www.wats.ca/show.php?contentid=43 If implementations can be modified so that accesskeys do not interfere with existing shortcut keys, then that's great. Perhaps they could offer a kind of web-apps mode where all Alt+[key] combinations are safe to be used by the web page, and then another mode where they retain their normal browser functions. But until something like that happens and proves successful, accesskeys should not be retained. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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