[whatwg] Accesskey in Web Forms 2

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sat Aug 21 16:32:46 PDT 2004


On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Kai Hendry wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 03:06:01 +1200, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> > >>1) Users can not easily tell what the accesskeys are.
> > >Their UA should do a better job of informing them.
> > Agreed. (For example, four years ago I requested for Mozilla: "Where an  
> > <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56701>)
> 
> Ok you *might* be able to show them. But how is a user supposed to
> remember them to really get an advantage? Accesskeys vary from site to
> site.

Sites where users are likely to use accesskeys are sites that the users 
will be using from day to day. For example, on the Web, Google. On 
intranets it is even more common for applications to be used a lot.

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