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From: Accessibility India
Date: Nov 9, 2010 7:06AM

Hi Bruna,

My experience says that use of access keys is fine unless it does not
coinside with short-cuts of browsers, assistive technologies and
operating systems. Generally developers take care of all these but let
me quote an example where I have observed a coinside of accesskey of
the website and short-cut of assistive technology.
In the website "www.mail.com, if you login you will have an link to
calender. When we clikc on the calender we have options "Previous week
and next week".
This options are provided with short-cuts "Previous week control + alt
+ page-up, Next week with control + alt + page down, where as same
short - cuts are used in JAWS (screen reader) for increasing and
decreasing rate of speech speed.

Hope it helps.

On 11/9/10, <EMAIL REMOVED>
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> We use access keys on internal applications that people use frequently. That
> way they learn the access keys that they need. For externally facing sites
> we don't employ them due to the risk of overriding other keys. Internally we
> have full control over the browser, OS, and AT so we know which keys are
> still available.
>
> Mike Moore
>
>