- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:20:51 +1200
- To: Ed.Kautz@metavante.com, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 03:39:33 +1200, Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu> wrote: > The accesskey portion of HTML 4 has been interpreted in > different ways by various developers. I think there is a > general consensus that the HTML 4 accesskey specification was > not very well thoughout or implemented. XHTML 2 is right now > trying to figure out how to fix this in new recommendations. As an implementor, I think we don't do it very well (which puts us a long way ahead of the competition - the early implementations such as Internet Explorer and Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox are seriously broken in terms of usefulness). But to answer your specific question... > ---- Original message ---- >> From: Ed.Kautz@Metavante.com ... >> I am using Microsoft Internet Explorer version >> 6.0.2800.1106 to display your test web page. >> The result of pressing the ALT-A keys in succession >> toggles the check in the box off and on. >> >> Is this the result I should expect according to the >> W3C specifications or the way the MS IE browser >> interprets the W3C specifications? This is an acceptable result according to the specification. >> If this result conforms to the W3C standards, why >> are the CHECKBOX ACCESSKEY results different from >> other FORM fields accessed by ACCESSKEYS? The specification avoided explicitly requiring one or other behaviour, so there are many ways to conform completely to the specification and still make it hard for users :( In particular, sometimes doing one thing and sometimes another is fine :( This is the kind of problem that the specification has. In principle the markup can be used to support an excellent implmentation, but the spec needds to be clearer on some required behaviours and so on. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile chaals@opera.com hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk Peek into the kitchen: http://snapshot.opera.com/
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