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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Nov 9, 2010 7:27AM

"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."

This is technically the case, but I'm not sure it reflects the way blind/partially sighted people perceive accesskeys. We did a straw poll of members of the British Computer Association of the Blind a while back, and most people said they disliked accesskeys, and ignored them in favour of their screen reader's native link handling functionality.

Regards,
Léonie.

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