Scott Mattocks wrote:
Allen Shaw wrote:
I agree it's a major feature, and I wonder why it's being deprecated,
as I find it incredibly useful (I primarily design targeted
applications, not public Web sites).
I think one of the main arguments against accesskeys is that they
interfere with normal hotkeys in the browser and other applications.
In particular they can cause problems with screen readers and other
accessibility tools where being able to use crtl-A for an expected
operation is essential. If you override that functionality to access
an element, you have made the site useless to someone that depends on
a certain action to access a site.
Yeah, I think that's right. Conflicts with screen reader functions and
browser chrome are a recurring issue with accesskeys. This is one
reason why this guy <http://www.wats.ca/show.php?contentid=32> was
suggesting that accesskeys may not be especially useful except in
intranet application or similar settings, in which you can develop for
specific UAs. That happens to be my situation for most projects,
though, so the potential for such conflicts is far less of an issue for
me than it might be for others.
- A.
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Allen Shaw
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