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Re: Web Site Access Keys

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Nov 1, 2011 8:09AM

1.11.2011 15:48, Ryan Hemphill wrote:

> Inability to leverage the arrow keys would make more complex widgets
> extremely messy, if not completely unusable.

Many applications benefit from the use of arrow keys for some natural
purposes like moving around. But I don't see how this relates to access
keys. Or this there some way to use the accesskey=... attribute an a web
page so that it assigns a meaning to an arrow key?

I would normally expect a page that uses arrow keys to do that via
scripting. That's also to make single-character input (say, "1" instead
of "Alt+1" or "Shift+Alt+1") to do something.

Yucca