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FW: [gawds_discuss] Accesskeyus interruptus: anotherreal-world case

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From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: Feb 15, 2006 3:17PM

More Accesskey news via GAWDS - apologies for those who may have already
seen this.

JF - the Accesskey guy <wink>
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John Foliot <EMAIL REMOVED>
Web Accessibility Specialist
WATS.ca - Web Accessibility Testing and Services
http://www.wats.ca
Phone: 1-613-482-7053

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mikecherim wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> I think this may be of interest to you guys.
>
> At Accessites.org we are offering accesskeys by way of a PHP script
> [1] so users can set their own to better meet their needs (thanks to
> Gez, Rich, Thierry, and Dan).
>
> We *had* default values assigned to the 6 keys we offered, using
> numbers 0-5.
>
> This morning someone tried to contact us and mentioned that even
> these values provided problems for him. The person noting this is
> using Windows, but has a character in his name. To write the unusual
> character his name in our contact form, he has to use alt+0228. This
> spawned a page turn thus interrupting his use of our form.
>
> We have reset all of our accesskeys to null values by default, but
> users can still go in a set them if they want to.
>
> This was news to me, but another real-world case on how they can
> interfere, even with scripting allowing customization.
>
> [1] http://accessites.org/settings/#customkeys
>
> Sincerely,
> Mike Cherim
> http://green-beast.com/
> http://accessites.org/
>