Re: FN-FORUM: accessibility issues... (accesskey mainly)

date posted 6th August 2004 20:08

At 20:03 on Friday, 06 Aug 2004, Luke Perman wrote:

>
> On 6 Aug 2004, at 18:15, Tony Crockford wrote:
>
>> you really shouldn't use access keys for anything other than the basic
>> common navigation.
>>
>> you *should* try and match your keys to some standards.
>
> here is the crux of my bone of contention - why the hell should my site
> follow some goverment guide to content (as the accesskeys below would
> suggest)
>
> i'm all for standards - but this seems to be overly dictatorial!


you don't have to use the e-gov standards, it's just that they are
convenient, well documented and starting to become a "standard" and don't
appear to clash with any other apps.

imaging how irritated you'd be if the f1 key didn't bring up help, but
shutdown your browser instead, or the f5 key opened a new window instead
of refreshed the one you are in.


if you want to choose you're own letters for accesskeys - that's fine, but
you'd better research which are already allocated.


http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html
http://www.clagnut.com/blog/193/

;o)