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Re: More data on accesskeys (New article written Nov. 1)

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Nov 2, 2006 10:50AM

John Foliot wrote:
> AFAIK, accesskey is still slated to be deprecated in XHTML 2,
> but what we are dealing with here is HTML/XHTML today, and sadly
> accesskey is still in that spec.

Sorry, I used the wrong phrasing there. I had meant deprecated from
general practice (sites *and* browsers), so that it would just be left
as it is for now, and phased out completely later.

I would rather see active development of the DTDs to make @role valid
(as you suggest) rather than further development of accesskey
functionality.

Kind regards,

-Alastair

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Alastair Campbell | Director of User Experience

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