Re: "accesskey" - Techniques open issue

The inherent problem is that if the K key is reassigned on me, then I can no
longer find out what the commands available to me are in lynx. The
alternative of specifying the ctrl-w key means that in netscape on linux my
browser quits (or can no longer be quit). And so on.

Charles McCN

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Jason White wrote:

  My understanding from the previous discussion of this point is that
  ACCESSKEY specifies a Unicode character, which the author should choose as
  a mnemonic (as in a good menu system).
  
  The key or key sequence to be used in entering the access character is (or
  should be) implementation-dependent, as should the highlighting, voice
  quality or other style property which serves to identify it in the user
  interface.
  
  I agree with Charles that there are dependencies here involving thg UA and
  PF, but that the relevant authoring technique is to choose a mnemonic
  character with which to identify the form control, link, etc., which
  should then be provided as the value of ACCESSKEY. Do not use the same
  value twice in a single document.
  
  I don't think ACCESSKEY is inherently problematic. It might better be
  called MNEMONICCHARACTER, a name which would undercut the implication that
  there exists (or should exist) a direct correspondence between the
  character and a keyboard.
  
  

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