Re: Use first letter as ACCESSKEY

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

Received on Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:10:23 UTC