- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 13:36:52 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Tom Croucher <tcroucher@netalleynetworks.com>
- Cc: 'Maurizio Vittoria' <vittoria@marciana.venezia.sbn.it>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
There are also browseers that interfere with numbers, and numbers are not very memorable. If a page is in italian, I would expect "Aiuto" and not "Help", so accesskey="A" makes more sense. For things that are standard across sites (home, next, first, help, etc - full list at http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-links which I recommend as reading) there is the rel attribute. This is a better technique since in a given browser it provides the same activation method for all sites. Although I don't know of any asian languages which remap the numbers on the keyboard, it is the case that most arabic keyboards produce arabic numeral characters by default - in other words the numerals 0-9 are not on the standard keyboard. cheers Chaals On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Tom Croucher wrote: > >That's was one of the reasons why Plone implemented a proper access key >translation scheme. I think someone did point out though that Asian >users might use the number keys for language functions, that really >needs investigating properly. > >-----Original Message----- >From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On >Behalf Of Maurizio Vittoria > >I agree the application of the number in accesskey simply because: > >- the numbers are known to universal level >- the numbers do not depend on the language (e.g.:H=Hepl in English, but >in >Italian is A=Aiuto, etc.) >- the numbers do not interfere with eventual keys it fix to you from the > >system or the programs
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