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Re: excess accesskeysWCAG Violation for use of tabindex=0 on static elements.

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From: Chaals McCathie Nevile
Date: Mar 16, 2016 7:31PM

On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:02:24 +0100, Birkir R. Gunnarsson
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> I once audited a webpage which had access key attributes for every
> link and piece of text on the page (they stopped because they ran out
> of keys).

They weren't trying hard enough. You can put any unicode character in
there. Although some are a bad idea…

More to the point, I know real users, who genuinely want this
functionality. I tend to suggest that they should use a browser extension
to do it, because asking content producers would be a terrible idea. But
it relies on actually having accesskey - if we stick to javascripted
shortcuts, you can pretty much forget about trying to make it work.

cheers

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Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex
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