- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:46:57 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
- Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010426144646.01f83580@pop3.concentric.net>
Hi all, I've been thinking about accommodating severe motor disabilities and put together demo of an on-line tool with features that I think would be useful in browsers. The tool 1. assigns keyboard shortcuts (e.g. a, b, c, ... aa, ab, ac... aaa, aab, aac...) to every link on the page. A typical shortcut looks like this: {ae} free range chickens So if a page has 200 links, the person doesn't have to press the tab key 200 time which, for a person with a motor disability, can take several minutes. By the way, these aren't access keys (which are limited to 1 letter). Instead, you use them with a kluge: you program keyboard or AAC macros to do a search that jumps to the shortcut. 2. The tool also places a button next to every object that has a mouseover. You can get to the button with the above shortcut or with the tab key and it produces the mouseover effect. This is a crude demo. it doesn't do image maps, and gets confused by javascript. I'm offering these as implementations to help them make their way into browsers. The demo and an accommpaning white paper is at http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/aac-web/ Len p.s. I'm going to be off-line for about a month starting monday 4/30 so I wouldn't be in the discusssion except maybe a bit just before then. Enjoy! -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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