- From: Charles (Chuck) Oppermann <chuckop@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 01:40:03 -0700
- To: Paul Adelson <paul.adelson@citicorp.com>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
<< It sounds like Microsoft may be willing to reserve specific key combinations to support a specific navigation strategy in their standards. Am I interpreting your message correctly, Chuck? >> I know my reply to this is late, but it's a important reply. To be perfectly clear - my opinion is that the goal of the guidelines should be to inform browser manufactures of the needs of people with disabilities and *recommend* what the browser should do in certain user/author scenarios. Given that, I don't believe it's necessary, nor practical to recommend specific keyboard sequences. It should be noted in the guidelines that whatever keyboard model is used should be consistent with the keyboard model in place in the users platform. << Has anyone compiled a matrix of reserved key combinations and their functions on various platforms, like Ctrl-Z on Windows? And perhaps more important, unreserved key combinations? Does Microsoft maintain such a list for its standards, Chuck? >> We do have the Windows Keyboard Guide on http://microsoft.com/enable/, but it does not have a matrix like you wish. It's a project that I want to work on in a few months. Charles Oppermann Program Manager, Active Accessibility, Microsoft Corporation mailto:chuckop@microsoft.com http://microsoft.com/enable/ "A computer on every desk and in every home, usable by everyone!"
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