- From: gregory j. rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:58:41 -0400
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: <dnewman@globalformats.com>
aloha, again -- in addition, i should have noted that the phenomenon described by daniel in his post (the apparent loss of core functionality in the windows environment due to microsoft's choice of the ALT key as the triggering mechanism for "accesskey") is replicated in the 3.x versions of JFW -- CONTROL+A ("select all" on windows machines) followed by CONTROL+C ("copy to clipboard") copies not a copy of the visual rendering of a document to the clipboard, but the JFW "view" (including pseudo-pseudo-elemental text such as "link" "visited link" "mailto link" "imagemap link", etc., depending upon the user's settings - for a detailed description of how JFW aurally renders a page, consult the document that resides at the following, obscenely long, URI: <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/wai/ua/longdesc/jfw-html-options-20000223.htm l#user-experience-overview> -----Original Message----- From: gregory j. rosmaita [mailto:oedipus@hicom.net] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:20 PM To: dnewman@globalformats.com; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: Re: Alt keys verses accesskey aloha, again! i should have pointed out, as well, that the accesskey conflict you described is not only IE-specific, but platform-specific as well -- hence, it should NOT be considered a fatal flaw in the definition of ACCESSKEY (which is, admittedly, ambiguous on the issue of "expected action in response to the invocation of an ACCESSKEY, including whether invoking an ACCESSKEY activates the element for which it was defined or whether it merely establishes focus upon the element for which it was defined), but rather, an implementation bug in IE5+ -- which, depending upon your viewpoint, stems from the choice of ACCESSKEY trigger (the ALT key) or the failure to provide a "pass-through" mechanism/keystroke which would allow an author to define an ACCESSKEY without appearing to have broken IE's user interface, and a user to trigger an ACCESSKEY without inadvertently opening a menu item or to open a menu item without triggering an ACCESSKEY gregory. PS: for non-Windows implementations of ACCESSKEY, please refer to the following post on the WAI-IG list, as well as responses to it: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2001AprJun/0672.html> PPS: there are also accesskey test pages in GL web space -- consult: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/#techniques-tests> for more details and links to the test pages...
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