- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:56:42 +1000
- To: "John Foliot - WATS.ca" <foliot@wats.ca>
- Cc: <carl.myhill@ps.ge.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
In which case I think people are doing the right thing for the wrong reason. I believe the number of people who have difficulties using a mouse is predominantly people other than those who are visually impaired. Accesskey is an important functionality for people who have difficulties with providing input. Lots of them aren't people with visual disability. It also provides a functionality to authors that the rel attribute doesn't give them. Both of these things are useful - it's worth recognising them both, and what they do... cheers Chaals On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 23:44 Australia/Sydney, John Foliot - WATS.ca wrote: > But consider for a moment the *primary* (not exclusive) reason for > providing > keyboard based navigation through a web site. When queried, most > developers > will say that it assists visually impaired users, which is certainly > true. > Oh ya, others may benefit from it (mobile devices, mobility impaired > users, > etc.), but this seems to be the major reason for implementation. > -- Charles McCathieNevile Fundación Sidar charles@sidar.org http://www.sidar.org
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