- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 03:23:02 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
They work really well in some browsers (iCab is the standout example in my opinion, but Opera is reasonably good) and other browsers really don't manage to make them very helpful at all. I don't think that an overall standard for which keys to use is that helpful. There is the link element for standardised links, which allows each browser to provide the same control across different sites (and many do). Using what others use is valuable, but the design of accesskey isn't sufficiently smart to make it worthwhile. (I do hope that it gets redesigned in XHTML 2, and other user-oriented languages...) As someone who has problems with my hand I really appreciate them. Other people won't care at all about them. But then I rarely try to find out what the title attribute says about things, while some people find it very important (when it is there). cheers Chaals On Monday, Jun 2, 2003, at 16:58 Europe/Zurich, Julian Voelcker wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 08:43:55 -0400, John Foliot - WATS.ca wrote: >> I have reached the conclusion that the use of ACCESSKEYS is more >> trouble than it's worth. See: >> http://wats.ca/resources/accesskeys/19 >> for all the gritty details. > > Interesting. I suppose the key thing is to know how muck/many people > use them. > > Ideally we are trying to do what ever we can to make sites accessible. > > Cheers, > > Julian Voelcker > Cirencester, United Kingdom >
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