- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:31:39 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Bill Mason wrote: > This (and a later passage) seems to discount the usefulness of accesskey to > those of other disabilities, such as the blind. In a webpage context, yes. When I raised the subject, I had in mind an application context, in which users might learn a standardised set of accesskeys for the application. Since that's a learning curve, standardisation seems to be the key to usefulness. > The issue is not that of coders having difficulty assigning unique > accesskeys. In my opinion, the major problem with implementing accesskeys > is that the method of activation (using a modifier key such as ALT in > Windows) almost automatically causes conflicts with accesskeys of the > user's OS and applications, including the user agent itself. Yes, that's precisely the problem, and the reason for my question! mod_accessibility is an application. But the users who will benefit from it are reading web pages. I'd like to assign default accesskeys to the application, but in a manner that also works on webpages. Use of first letter is one option, but could at worst be actively harmful if it clashes with someone's existing UA controls! -- Nick Kew
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