- From: John Foliot - bytown internet <foliot@bytowninternet.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:39:49 -0400
- To: "Tomas Caspers" <tomas@tomascaspers.de>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
After conducting an unofficial survey/research project in the summer of 2002, I concluded that there really were no useful access keys not already reserved by some application or other. When you take internationalisation issues into account, it becomes a hopeless cause. See: http://www.wats.ca/resources/accesskeys/19 for an opinion piece I wrote regarding the subject. JF > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On > Behalf Of Tomas Caspers > Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 5:57 AM > To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org > Subject: Re: Accesskey consensus > > > > Hoffman, Geoffrey wrote: > > > I added some of my own research to the above blog... > > couldn't find a list of 'reserved access keys' so I created one. > > > > German accessibility evangelist Jan Hellbusch has a short list of > accesskeys used by various browsers at: > http://www.barrierefreies-webdesign.de/knowhow/tastatur/empfehlung.htm > > His findings were that the only characters which weren't used in the > most common browsers were c, j and t. Note that he only covers Win98, > so the list of "free" keys might even get shorter when you start looking > at other OS's and UA's. > > HTH > > /Tomas Caspers > > -- > Tagesfrische News zur Barrierefreiheit: > http://www.einfach-fuer-alle.de/ > Eine Initiative der Aktion Mensch > > > > >
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