"Peter Jenkins"
<pe**************************************@xtra.co. enzed> wrote:
Can anyone suggest a better/clearer guide than this
A List Apart article? http://www.alistapart.com/stories/accesskeys/
Regarding access keys, the basic guide is very simple:
Don't.
Keyboard shortcuts are essential, even indispensable to many users, and
potentially useful to all. That's why so many programs, including
browsers, have such shortcuts. And exactly for this reason the very
idea of accesskey attributes, when meant to live in the same shortcut
"name space" as program control shortcuts, is a bad idea. The idea
becomes much worse when made into a WAI recommendation that makes
people think that accesskey attributes improve, rather than disrupt,
accessibility, and _must_ be used - even in trivial cases where we have
a small list of links.
For a detailed explanation, see my treatise on accesskey attributes,
written mostly when I was much more optimistic about the idea than now:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html
Note that this issue is rather separate from what you have written on
the Subject line, which asks a question that would be quite
topic-here if it were your real question.
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