- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:33:49 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Graham Oliver <graham_oliver@yahoo.com>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
This brings up a big issue about the difference between theory and practise, and about what universal really means. For Internet Explorer running in english on Windows this is a reasonable approach. But for many phone-based devices the numerals 0 - 9 are the only available keys, and for other, better designed systems, any key or even any character is available. I haven't tested whether explorer actually supports numbers as accesskeys (the specification requires that every unicode character including numbers in many writing systems are available) but if so my personal feeling is that it might be smartest to start with those. In general it is important to work out what are the variables in the different implementations (as far as I know, Explorer, Amaya, iCab, Phone.com's browser are all implementing accesskeys, and I believe that NTTDoCoMo browsers do too). Which involves making decisions for today which are clearly not likely to be good long-term decisions, and should therefore be realigned when good implementation of accessiblity features (in this case I think there are specification problems to be resolved too) start to appear. Cheers Charles McCN On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Graham Oliver wrote: I am interested in choosing effective shortcut letters for AccessKeys. By effective I mean ones that don't interfere with either 1. Keyboard use of a browser 2. Keyboard use of JAWS and WindowEyes As an example I would rule out using F E V A T H becuase these provide access to the main menu bar in Internet Explorer 5.5 Also 'D' because this provides access to the address bar. Does this seem reasonable? If so, if anyone would like to post or send to me other shortcuts that are good not to use then I will post the results on line Cheers Graham Oliver ===== 'Making on-line information accessible' Mobile Phone : +64 25 919 724 - New Zealand Work Phone : +64 9 846 6995 - New Zealand AIM ID : grahamolivernz ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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