Comments on: WordPress Access Keys http://blog.wilsonet.com/archives/2004/04/22/wordpress-access-keys/ Interaction and interface design, technology, politics, music, and random thoughts... Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mr. Farlops http://blog.wilsonet.com/archives/2004/04/22/wordpress-access-keys/comment-page-1/#comment-425 Mr. Farlops Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:22:28 +0000 http://blog.wilsonet.com/wp-login.php/wp-admin/archives/category/meta-data/archives/category/wp-images/smilies/feed/wp-images/smilies/archives/2004/02/16/wp-images/smilies/archives/2004/02/03/archives/2003/11/01/feed/archives/2004/02/archives/2004/04/22/w#comment-425 Wouldn't it better to use numbers and symbols to avoid keyboard conflicts with the browsing agent? I realize that older versions of Opera don't support numbers and symbols and I also realize that screen readers and other assistive technology can have custom key mappings but it seems safer to remove one avoidable source of conflict, even though it doesn't conform with the MSWindows UI. Wouldn’t it better to use numbers and symbols to avoid keyboard conflicts with the browsing agent?

I realize that older versions of Opera don’t support numbers and symbols and I also realize that screen readers and other assistive technology can have custom key mappings but it seems safer to remove one avoidable source of conflict, even though it doesn’t conform with the MSWindows UI.

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