Re: Limited Number of possible accesskey values

and you cannot beat the ctrl+f that jaws uses with ie.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: Limited Number of possible accesskey values



> the maximum possible). However, they are neither necessary (other good 
> techniques exist) nor sufficient (always likely to be a key conflict 

In practice, access keys are a nice idea that doesn't work well except
in an intranet application environment, where everyone is using the
same browser and are using the application regularly.

I actually find that a combination of sensible text labelling of links
and and easy to use search within page facility allow very fast keyboard
access.  I'm particularly thinking of the "/" search command in the 
default keyboard bindings for Lynx.  Being unshifted and on the main
keyboard, it is very easy for touch typists to use.

Received on Wednesday, 16 April 2003 08:28:28 UTC