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

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From: Phil Teare
Date: Nov 3, 2006 3:40AM

Yes, thanks guys.

I kind of expected as much, but as I 1) haven't seen any stats and 2) sit
alone in my darkened room, never getting to actually watch real live people
useing my stuff (or very rarely), I wasn't sure.

Pretty convinced now the @role = good, access keys= not much use.

Cheers
Phil
www.talklets.com




On 03/11/06, Joshue O Connor < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Thanks for that Alastair.
>
> All the best
>
> Josh
>
> Alastair Campbell wrote:
> > Josh wrote:
> >> At the risk of upsetting a hornets nest here, can you please point to
> >> any resources which indicate exactly what UA key combinations are
> > mostly
> >> effected by user defined access keys?
> >
> > There's a list of browser, OS & access technology keys here:
> > http://www.wats.ca/show.php?contentid=43
> >
> > Colin wrote:
> >> I would be curious to read about any user or users who either use the
> >> feature or who have tried and found it unhelpful.
> >
> > There are some, you might find such a reply in the WAI-IG archive
> > somewhere, but it is rare.
> >
> > When testing client sites with a variety of people with different
> > abilities and access technologies, I've not found one who spontaneously
> > used accesskeys when they were available.
> >
> > When asked after the tasks if they noticed the accesskeys or used them
> > on other sites, replies varied between "what accesskeys", "what are
> > accesskeys", and "yes, but I've never used them". Given the poor
> > implementations both in browsers and in sites (e.g. one that gave
> > 'helpful' hidden text that spelt them phonetically, but then they didn't
> > work anyway), those type of results are hardly surprising.
> >
> > I'd love to make this sort of data available, but 1) It's confidential
> > to each client, and 2) we asked out of curiosity, the tasks were to find
> > or use things on the site. Accesskeys were not the focus, which I guess
> > is quite realistic!
> >
> > I can see good uses for often used applications (e.g. intranet apps or
> > webmail clients), but they would still have to be user defined. For
> > general sites, the @role style methods are the way forward.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > -Alastair
> >
>
>
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