[whatwg] Accesskey in Web Forms 2

Anne van Kesteren fora at annevankesteren.nl
Fri Aug 20 05:21:14 PDT 2004


>> Agreed; WA1 will probably give some way of automatically indicating 
>> access keys. (I haven't really looked at this yet, hence the empty 
>> section.)
> 
>    I'm pretty sure the HTML 4.01 specification suggests a visual 
> indicator for access keys, like underlining the character in the label. 
> I think this is more a failure on the part of UA vendors to implement it.

It does[1]. It is not required however, but highly recommended. Maybe 
HTML 5.0 should make this a MUST rather than a SHOULD?


[1]<http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/interact/forms.html#h-17.11.2>


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  Anne van Kesteren
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