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From: Randy Pearson
Date: Mon, Oct 06 2003 10:31AM
Subject: RE: Next and Previous Accesskey
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>> I would be very interested in any articles on recommended ACCESSKEY
attribute
assignments. Could you post the links?
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_15_defining_keyboard_shortcuts.html
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html
are a few good ones.
>> Specificaly on your question, I'm not sure that accesskeys are necessary
at all
for Next and Previous page, since browsers support this navigation by
default.
Do you mean using <link> tags in the <head> section? If so, I think MSIE
doesn't support those. Or if it does, I'm not seeing it. (I agree they are a
good idea.)
>> We decided to use numbers rather than letters, to minimise conflicts with
browsers and screen-readers, and avoid language dependencies.
Same here.
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From: John Britsios
Date: Mon, Oct 06 2003 11:06AM
Subject: Re: Next and Previous Accesskey
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Use numbers for accesskeys:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2003AprJun/0117.html
John Britsios
Web Accessibility and Usability Consultant
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From: "Randy Pearson" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
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Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 6:11 PM
Subject: RE: Next and Previous Accesskey
> >> I would be very interested in any articles on recommended ACCESSKEY
> attribute
> assignments. Could you post the links?
>
> http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_15_defining_keyboard_shortcuts.html
>
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html
>
> are a few good ones.
>
> >> Specificaly on your question, I'm not sure that accesskeys are
necessary
> at all
> for Next and Previous page, since browsers support this navigation by
> default.
>
> Do you mean using <link> tags in the <head> section? If so, I think MSIE
> doesn't support those. Or if it does, I'm not seeing it. (I agree they are
a
> good idea.)
>
> >> We decided to use numbers rather than letters, to minimise conflicts
with
> browsers and screen-readers, and avoid language dependencies.
>
> Same here.
>
> -- Randy
>
>
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From: John Foliot
Date: Mon, Oct 06 2003 2:24PM
Subject: RE: Next and Previous Accesskey
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PLEASE DO *NOT* USE NUMBERS, as they too may have conflicts attached to
them.
See:
http://www.wats.ca/resources/accesskeys/38
for a more complete listing of "reserved" keystroke combinations than
alluded to in the W3C posting mentioned below.
cheers!
JF
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Web Accessibility Testing and Services
http://www.wats.ca 1.866.932.4878 (North America)
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From: Stephanie Sullivan
Date: Mon, Oct 06 2003 8:03PM
Subject: Re: Next and Previous Accesskey
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on 10/6/03 4:17 PM, John Foliot at = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = profoundly
spewed forth their very articulate thoughts:
> PLEASE DO *NOT* USE NUMBERS, as they too may have conflicts attached to
> them.
This was the reason that in the fall of 2002, when I was completing a fully
accessible website, we opted not to use access keys. The more I researched
it the more reserved keys I found. Before long, the client and I felt that
it was more possible trouble for people than it was worth.
I am all for access keys... And some standardization of them. But I don't
feel it's ready for prime time until we have that.
Stephanie Sullivan
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