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Re: JavaScript library for display and customization of keyboard shortcuts?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 31, 2015 3:49PM

> Any end user, without needing to worry about the technical aspects, ought to be able to bring up a list while they are on a webpage that says "right now, these are the current key bindings.

Yes, I think this would also really help speech users. Also, I'd like to take this a step further and say that controls should expose all of their interactions through device independent methods so the user could just pull up a menu of actions for a control and be able to perform those actions without requiring specific keystrokes. This idea may tie into IndieUI -- but why have keystroke specific commands. Consider the benefit to mobile users who may not have a physical or virtual keyboard but want to use speech or a mobile screen reader to change an ARIA slider that today requires pressing up or down arrows. I envision a web where the user would just land on the control and then have some sort of actions list like the rotor on iOS to review the available actions and then select the desired action. This would reduce many interactions down to single taps making custom controls available to users of switch control, prosthetics, and screen readers users who don't want to carry around a keyboard, etc.

Jonathan

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Jonathan Avila
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