- From: Charles (Chuck) Oppermann <chuckop@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:10:45 -0800
- To: "'Jon Gunderson'" <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>, "M. T. Hakkinen" <hakkinen@dev.prodworks.com>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
I think of it like a dialog box. Most dialog boxes don't say "Press ALT+F to go to the File Type combo box." Windows user know when they see a underline (or their screen reader announces the accelerator) that they can use ALT and that key to keyboard activate it. Similar, Macintosh users know then they see the little clover character (whatever it's called) that they can use the CMD key. The fact that IE and Netscape don't represent the ACCESSKEY is a browser bug and fails to meet the HTML 4.0 specification. I'll see what I can do to fix that. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Gunderson [mailto:jongund@staff.uiuc.edu] Sent: Monday, February 16, 1998 11:47 AM To: M. T. Hakkinen; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: RE: ACCESSKEY attribute Thanks for the information on ACCESSKEY. But isn't the browser implementation kind of a big deal. If I put a statement like "Press S to submit the form", the user has to press more than S in most browsers. So many people will think it doesn't work. But if I put the "Access key for the submit button is S". Most people won't know what an access key is. There must be a better way to use the access key for authors to adopt it's usage. Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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