> From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] > On Behalf Of Karl Lurman > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 5:22 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE > > > Fwiw, I don't agree about accesskeys [1]. > > The article on your site seems to advocate the use of access keys. The > concept of allowing users to define which access keys they can use is > an interesting and clever approach. Have you got an example of this > out in the wild? There are certainly pitfalls with access keys. That > fact there isn't a set of standard access keys across various > platforms/browsers, is a real shame and goes against them > tremendously. Is this why your feelings on access key usage has > changed?
Yes, because by implementing them we take the risk to break the user's own shortcuts. That's why letting the user map his own is a safer approach. > Or do you have some other reservations? > > Using title on anchors is also something I would not do. These links > are > > meaningful already and title is ignored by most screen-reader users > anyway. > > Besides, the tooltip that title creates is often a problem for people > using > > screen magnifiers. > > I think that any additional content that might help a user, sight > impaired or otherwise, can't be a bad thing. It adds to the document's > semantic value and might also aid in SEO. You are right however, some > screen readers will ignore this 'extra' content (other side of the > coin, some will not). I think the problem is that the 'title' > attribute is abused or used incorrectly. If it doesn't contain any > additional semantic value, then perhaps it should be omitted. I was > unaware that screen magnifiers may experience problems with > tooltips... Thanks for the tip (no pun intended) on that. As you point out, the main problem with title is that people often use it to duplicate stuff or do keyword stuffing. In any case, I rarely found the need to use it (as as side note, most screen-readers won't ignore the title attribute when it is used with form controls). -- Regards, Thierry | www.tjkdesign.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
