- From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:20:14 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- cc: Amaya Mailing List <www-amaya@w3.org>
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > The User Agent Guidelines do cover this as far as I can tell: > http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10/guidelines.html#tech-info-current-ua-config > says > > Provide information to the user about current user preferences for input > configurations. I expressed this poorly: what I meant was that they don't seem to recommend a standard way to do this for visual browsers, so I'm not aware of what I should expect. They have good reasons for not doing so in terms of not limiting browser design and innovation. > > As far as I can tell this should cover what keys can be used to navigate > around a document. Yes, agreed. > > One approach to doing this would be to implement the CSS > pseduo-elements :before and :after, the property content, > and attr() then a user style sheet rule like > > *[accesskey]:before { content: "<" attr(accesskey) ">" } > > would provide a functionality like iCab has for identifying the accesskeys. Would this work now? If so, I'll scour the docs for more info on how to set this up. > > There is a similar functionality somewhere in Amaya already, which is used to > put in markers for things like targets and annotations. Adapting / repeating > this would be another possiblity. For accessibility purposes, copying the [...[ These look good ideas. So I have not missed existing functionality then? > > just my thoughts... > > Chaals > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote: [...] > >be rather quiet about what has been defined. I could find no > >mention of how one is supposed to discern this information whilst > >reading the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines, so if there is a > >general principle for most browses, I have missed it. [...] > -- > Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 Thank you, Hugh
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