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Re: Web Site Access Keys

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From: Ryan Hemphill
Date: Nov 1, 2011 9:24AM

Well I haven't been using the access keys for anything really, although I
liked your point about Jira, which I will check out now that you have
mentioned it.

I guess what I was trying to state was that access keys have limited use
while the more flexible principle, such as arrow key assignments, has some
very real value. Granted, I was opening up the conversation, but I was just
trying to state a place where key assignments help. I was also pointing
out that there are potential conflicts with key assignments that go beyond
the browser that should be taken into account, such as the operating system
or the screen reader itself.

Sorry if I took a detour guys.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Jukka K. Korpela < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> 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
>