- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:27:14 -0500 (EST)
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- cc: "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong@naw.org>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Alternatively the implementation could offer a seperate view of the page, which lists the accesskeys, explains how to use them on the specific platform (eg CTRL+ALT+key, say "access + key", press the item you want) and uses TITLE and LABEL to give information about the elements to which the keys refer. This is analagous to what Amaya does with its 'link' view. There are any number of ways to implement it in a user interface - I don't think we need to describe them all, let alone prescribe them. Charles McCathieNevile On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Jon Gunderson wrote: Modifiers for Accesskeys will be dependent on the keyboard model of the operating system and therefore would be difficult to assign a standard of "ALT". Even with operating systems with the "ALT" key some operating system already assign values to some of the keys. I think one of the major issues with Accesskeys is that the accesskey information be rendered visually on the disaplay so people know that there is an accesskey he available. This could be done by underlining the character in the label of the control or link associated with the accesskey. If the accesskey is not a part of the label, then the user agent could add the letter in parenthesis after the label or link. Jon At 11:20 AM 1/27/99 -0500, B.K. DeLong wrote: >At 03:58 PM 1/27/99 +0000, Chris Croome wrote: >>Are there any standard access keys assignments? E.g. Alt-S for search or >>whatever? And if not is there a danger that every site will have a different >>set >>of keys for people to learn? > >At this point, Internet Explorer is the only browser that has some >implementation of ACCESSKEY. It appears they implemented it for elements A, >BUTTON, INPUT, LABEL and TEXTAREA in IE4.0 and elements AREA and LEGEND in >IE5.0. > >According to the HTML 4.0 recommendation, there are no "standard accesskeys." >http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#adef-accesskey > >Your best bet is to check with Microsoft and ask them for a list of all IE >Alt-key assignments. The Mozilla Project has their NGLayout/Gecko team >currently working on an implementation for accesskey: >http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959 > > >>On reflection it was silly to set Alt-H to anything as it will prevent the >Help >>menu in the browser being accessed... > >Somewhere it would be helpful to keep an index of ALT-key functions for >some of the major browsers. > >Good comments- thanks for bringing this to light. >-- >B.K. DeLong 360 Huntington Ave. >Director Suite 140CSC-305 >New England Chapter Boston, MA 02115 >World Organization (617) 247-3753 >of Webmasters > >http://www.world-webmasters.org >bkdelong@naw.org > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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