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RE: use of access keys (was: Next and Previous Accesskey)

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Oct 7, 2003 6:56AM

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Karl Groves wrote:

> Has anyone ever assembled a comprehensive list of reserved keys?

The list is effectively the same as the list of characters that we could
possibly want to use. The conclusion is that, perhaps excluding special
cases (e.g. when the user community is known and limited), accesskey
attributes cause more harm than any good. People who are used to browsing
with keyboard shortcuts will be upset when, say, Alt S does not open the
favorites but does something quite different. (My point is that you cannot
possibly know the shortcut assignments, which depend on the language of
the browser's user interface. among other things.) For some details see
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html
(which largely reflects my old, more optimistic attitude).

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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