- From: John Foliot - WATS.ca <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 06:20:01 -0400
- To: "'David Woolley'" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, "'W3c-Wai-Ig'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
David Woolley wrote: > > The real problem though is that once you allow an author control of > something, it becomes part of their particular house style > and the user > ends up having to provide custom overrides for every site, which is > not realistic. The precedent from other areas (e.g. the way > that links > are disguised in many different ways) is that authors consider their > right to design a higher priority than producing consistent > user interfaces; > the web was the death of platform user interface guidelines. Thank you. This more than anything is the real point of my rants. Perpetuating the author's ability to bind a specific key to "access" or "accesskey" is the real issue, as it descends into exactly the scenario you have just described, which I cannot see as being an "accessible" solution or recommendation. JF
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