- From: Bailey, Bruce <Bruce.Bailey@ed.gov>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:13:51 -0400
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> I'm reasonably sure that this was added during the jump > from Windows 2000 to Windows XP, but I may be wrong. Since it would save me face, I would like this to be true, but Win2K has the same feature. > That's not your fault. It's the fault of browser/OS manufacturers > for putting their (often undocumented) easter-egg style > functionality for "power users" in their applications. It works on the desktop (icon view) too! Now that I understand the behavior better, I think it is pretty slick. >From a little experimenting, it seems that repeated presses of the same letter always cycle, but the OS is always trying to form a match too. So, picking the example Jesper started us with: k pause k pause k: Cycles between first three items in list that start with the letter k. kkk (quickly): Cycles (quickly) between first three items in list (that start with the letter k) -- even if you have an item in the list with a name that starts with "kkk". kka (quickly): Cycles between first two k items in list, then (if available) jumps to item name that starts with "kka" *OR* (if no match) beeps and selects item with close lexical match.
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