[Accessibility_sig] question: are there any "safe" access keys?

[Jon Gibbins (dotjay)]

Erik Fruin wrote:
> If you look at that list on the WATS site, you'll see that nearly every
> letter, number and symbol are used by one or more app/AT for some function.
> The few that are unused are also not very logical to use, like "ALT + :".
> And, as mentioned in an earlier email, multi-key combinations (CTRL + ALT +
> KEY) can be difficult for those with limited mobility.  For this reason, I
> (and many others) strongly recommend against using any access keys,
> especially if the site is public.  You never know who will be coming to it.

Agreed, Erik. Accesskeys are a good idea in theory, but not great in 
practice.

In which case, I suppose the best solution would be to not use 
accesskeys unless a user would *like* to use them. So, allowing a 
visitor to set their own accesskeys would be about as good as you can get:
http://juicystudio.com/article/user-defined-accesskeys.php

Of course, you would need to use a server-side language to achieve this.

Jon

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