- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:28:18 -0400
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
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.
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