- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:04:29 +0200
- To: "John Foliot - WATS.ca" <foliot@wats.ca>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, www-html-editor@w3.org
John Foliot - WATS.ca wrote: >Please, please, please. Remove the "key" attribute of this new element and >consider returning to the concept of allowing the end user/user agent to map >the user's preferred keystroke combination to roles (pre-defined or other). >Allow the end user, not the content author, to decide which keystroke >mappings suit's *their* needs and user configuration (there is already some >precedent in user agents providing this type of functionality, as witnessed >in browsers such as Opera). To do otherwise will continue to do a >dis-service to many of the end users this element seeks to assist, is >counter to web accessibility principles, and will leave this new element in >the similar dustbin of time that thankfully accesskey seems to be headed >towards. > > +1 It always annoys me that on several pages, I can’t open my feed reader (ALT+S). It would also be much more discoverable if the UA didn’t offer some ‘hidden’ keys, but instead presented me with a list of actions for a certain page I can fix to key bindings of my own choice. ~Grauw -- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Laurens Holst, student, university of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Website: www.grauw.nl. Backbase employee; www.backbase.com.
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