- From: David Bolnick <davebo@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:25:11 -0800
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
1) Accesskey and OS I agree there should be a W3C convention for selecting an Accesskey so that the underlining operating system can handle it appropriately. Maybe we should offer two ways to designate accesskey (this is the royal we since I am not on the WAI). The first as is - so it is up to the author to handle the look and feel (especially important for things like graphic buttons). The second by having an Accesskey tag. For example: <akey>S</akey>ave would embellish 'S' and set up the accesskey according to the specifications of the OS. 2) Your Web site: This is what you had (a label is not selectable and the focus will not move there): <p><label accesskey=U>URL: <input type=text name=url value="http://" size=45></label></p> This works (the accesskey is placed in a selectable element): <p><label>URL: <input type=text name=url value="http://" size=45 accesskey=U></label></p> David. -----Original Message----- From: Liam Quinn [mailto:liam@htmlhelp.com] Sent: Monday, February 16, 1998 4:50 PM To: David Bolnick; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: RE: ACCESSKEY attribute At 11:43 AM 16/02/98 -0800, David Bolnick wrote: >In IE the ACCESSKEY is assigned to the Alt so that is follows the >Alt+menu-mnemonic convension (as in selecting a menu from the menu bar). Is there any reason why ACCESSKEY does not work for me using IE 4.01 for Win95 at <http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/>? >Given that: If, for example, a 'Save' Button uses ACCESSKEY="s", then the >button text should be _S_ave (i.e., Save with the initial S underlined: ><u>S</u>ave). The browser should underline the character, not the author. If the author underlined it, users of non-supporting browsers and browsers with a different method of selecting an ACCESSKEY would be somewhat confused. Also keep in mind that the U element is deprecated in HTML 4.0. A more explicit implementation, and one that would allow for an access key not actually present in the label, would be for the browser to output [ALT-S] (for ACCESSKEY=S) before or after the form control. The my-layout-or-no-layout crowd would probably throw a fit, but it might be useful at least as a user option. In general, though, I'd rather as a user have the convention of my operating system used--for Windows, this would be underlining, but other operating systems may have different customs. -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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