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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Apr 18, 2016 12:37PM

intresting i wonder why jaws added twitter key commands the ones that
twitter uses work grate so what whould these key commands be and do that
twitter is not already doing

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Jonathan Cohn < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> JAWS 16 and 17 started providing this type of functionality with Twitter
> and a couple other sites. I believe I heard Facebook call it Web
> Application Accessible Keys. In JAWS you can get a list of the keys that
> the web page has overridden default behavior and alsso get shift-1
> functionality to speak explanations of the key.
> Best wishes,
>
> Jonathan Cohn
>
>
> On 18 April 2016 at 13:54, Bruno, Michele < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello Fellow Advocates,
> > I have had multiple recent requests asking about "keyboard shortcuts for
> > accessibility" we have in our web applications. I searched WCAG again
> just
> > in case I missed something and only see reference to keyboard
> > accessibility; users should be able to navigate/interact with web pages
> > solely with standard keyboard navigation. I get this. Other than WebAIM
> > reference: Keyboard shortcuts are a standard accessibility feature of
> most
> > operating systems. Beyond this, and/or possible mis-understanding of
> > keyboard (accessibility) vs keyboard shortcuts (OS standards), is there
> > something more to be aware of?
> > Thank you in advance.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >