Re: CFC - Response to issues 386, 659, and 660, 669, and 688 on Character Key Shortcuts

I'm concerned with the rewording of Remap, both the addition of "or the 
Space or Enter keys" and the wording "to use". 
https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/pull/732/files

 It is now proposed to read:

<dd>A mechanism is available to remap the shortcut to use one or more 
non-printable keyboard characters (e.g. Ctrl, Alt, Shift, etc.) or the 
Space or Enter keys.</dd> 

In the original wording, Space and Enter were excepted from counting as 
character keys. That has now been altered to state that authors can use 
Space and Enter to replace author-created shortcuts. However, Space and 
Enter tend to be assigned by the user agent for specific activations. We 
should not be encouraging their use for remapping purposes, especially 
without the use of a modifier key. This will potentially lead to exactly 
the same issues with Speech operation that the SC was attempting to 
overcome.

The concerns that were raised by the definition of character key seem to 
have been addressed by replacing 'character keys' with the phrase "using 
only letter (including upper- and lower-case letters), punctuation, 
number, or symbol characters ", which does not include Space or Enter. So 
it does not seem neccesary to later specify them in the remap definition. 
I would advocate that "or the Space or Enter keys" be removed.

As well, the rewording infers that justa modifier key can now be used. I 
think this can be overcome by changing "use" to "include". The resulting 
Remap's definition would read:

A mechanism is available to remap the shortcut to include use one or more 
non-printable keyboard characters (e.g. Ctrl, Alt, Shift, etc.).
 

Michael Gower
IBM Accessibility
Research

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From:   Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
To:     WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Date:   2018-01-14 11:30 PM
Subject:        CFC - Response to issues 386, 659, and 660, 669, and 688 
on Character  Key Shortcuts



Call For Consensus — ends Wednesday January 17th at 2:30am Boston time.
 
The Working Group has discussed responses to the following issues:
386: What do 'character key' and 'printable' mean? (
https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/386)
659: Ambiguous definition (https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/659)
660: Characters (https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/660)
669: SC 2.4.11 Character Key Shortcuts - Proposal for change of wording (
https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/669)
688: Comment on 2.4.11 (https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/688)
 
Response to Issue 386: 
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Draft_Responses_to_Dec_WD_Issues#386

Response to Issue 659: 
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Draft_Responses_to_Dec_WD_Issues#659

Response to Issue 660: 
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Draft_Responses_to_Dec_WD_Issues#660

Response to Issue 669: 
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Draft_Responses_to_Dec_WD_Issues#669

Response to Issue 688: 
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Draft_Responses_to_Dec_WD_Issues#688

 
The changes to the SC are implemented in this pull request: 
https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/pull/732

The changed SC can be viewed here: 
http://rawgit.com/w3c/wcag21/character_changes/guidelines/index.html#character-key-shortcuts

 
If you have concerns about this proposed consensus position that have not 
been discussed already and feel that those concerns result in you “not 
being able to live with” this decision, please let the group know before 
the CfC deadline.
 
Thanks,
AWK
 
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe 
 
akirkpat@adobe.com
http://twitter.com/awkawk