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From: Lee, Samson
Date: Thu, Jul 26 2001 2:16PM
Subject: accesskey
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When accesskey attributes are provided, how do users know that they exist?
Do screen readers detect and speak out? (I don't think JAWS is doing this)
Or do we have to tell users about it in detail on a separate page or
something...
Has anybody faced this issue?
samson
From: Paul Bohman
Date: Thu, Jul 26 2001 5:20PM
Subject: Re: accesskey
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This is the biggest drawback of using accesskeys right now. No one knows
they're there. As far as I know, there isn't any commercial product out
there that automatically tells the user if they are present or not.
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From: "Lee, Samson (NIDCR)" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: accesskey
> When accesskey attributes are provided, how do users know that they exist?
> Do screen readers detect and speak out? (I don't think JAWS is doing this)
> Or do we have to tell users about it in detail on a separate page or
> something...
>
> Has anybody faced this issue?
>
> samson
>
>
From: Farinelli, Stephanie L
Date: Fri, Jul 27 2001 7:29PM
Subject: RE: accesskey
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I have seen accesskeys used on a form where there's a list following the
form with the:
accesskey,
form field, and
description of the field's purpose.
ex: N, Last Name, (required)
Stephanie Farinelli
From: Lisa halabi
Date: Tue, Jul 31 2001 3:24AM
Subject: RE: accesskey
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Example of access keys in real world site:
This site underlines the appropriate access key although it's not explained
that they are there on the home page. They have a well explained
accessibility page however.
http://www.vallartabooks.com/
Regards,
Lisa
Lisa Halabi
Senior Usability Consultant
Usability by Design Ltd. London
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From: Ricardo Sanchez
Date: Tue, Jul 31 2001 5:23AM
Subject: RE: accesskey
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Hello All:
We use accesskeys on diferents web sites. We underline the letter that is accesskey and include a page with a list of accesskeys.
Example:
http://www.timon.com/far/
http://www.timon.com/far/atajos.html
It is important avoid conflicts with browsers shortcut keys. So we don't use F (File), E(Edit) and H (Help) and A (archivo), E
(edicion) and U (ayUda) in Spanish. We avoid all these letters because very much people in Spain use English versions of browsers.
Recently, a user tell us that we must avoid D (Direccion/aDdress) because he use this browser shortcut key for move the mouse
pointer to the Address bar.
You can see a shortcut keys lit for IE in:
http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/techinfo/reskit/en/ierk/Ch10_f.htm
On oct 99 I asked about accesskeys implementation on WAI list and I got some good responses from Alan Cantor, Gregory J. Rosmaita
and Charles McCathieNevile. You can read in:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/1999OctDec/0721.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/1999OctDec/0723.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/1999OctDec/0725.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/1999OctDec/0728.html
Regards,
Ricardo S