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

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From: Stephanie Sullivan
Date: Oct 7, 2003 9:47AM

on 10/7/03 8:20 AM, Eoin Campbell at <EMAIL REMOVED> profoundly spewed
forth their very articulate thoughts:

> 1. Some screen-reader applications use numeric accesskeys for other purposes.
>
> Does anyone know what happens in this situation?
> My understanding was that the screen-reader function would take priority,
> and the access keys simply wouldn't work. If this is correct, then it doesn't
> seem like a valid argument against ever using them.

I personally did not base my decision on only screenreaders... There are
also accesskeys for regular users that can be interferred with. The more we
researched, the more access keys we found and I literally couldn't find
enough (we had a large navigation) we could use without getting into
"something" or another.

I had, at that time, made a list of them all... And was trying to work
around it. I should have kept it (it could be backed up on a drive somewhere
I suppose)...

Stephanie Sullivan

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