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From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: Wed, Feb 15 2006 3:17PM
Subject: FW: [gawds_discuss] Accesskeyus interruptus: anotherreal-world case
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More Accesskey news via GAWDS - apologies for those who may have already
seen this.

JF - the Accesskey guy <wink>
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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/
>

From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Wed, Feb 15 2006 3:17PM
Subject: Re: FW: [gawds_discuss] Accesskeyus interruptus: anotherreal-world case
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> More Accesskey news via GAWDS - apologies for those who may have already
> seen this.
>

Wonderful. I am right now discussing with some editors for my chapter
on accessible JavaScript in an upcoming book that it is pretty useless
to try to better a browser via scripting or accesskey. That might
help.


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From: Gez Lemon
Date: Wed, Feb 15 2006 6:15PM
Subject: Re: FW: [gawds_discuss] Accesskeyus interruptus: anotherreal-world case
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On 15/02/06, John Foliot - WATS.ca < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> More Accesskey news via GAWDS - apologies for those who may have already
> seen this.

Just to add some context to this: if Accessites had allowed users to
define their own accesskeys with them disabled by default from the
start, which is how the technique is supposed to work, there would
never have been a problem.

Best regards,

Gez


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