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List:       kde-accessibility
Subject:    Re: [Kde-accessibility] making fallback access keys configurable
From:       Olaf Jan Schmidt <ojschmidt () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-02-28 9:03:53
Message-ID: 200602281003.54291.ojschmidt () kde ! org
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Hi Aaron!

Thanks for the patch. Making the additional accesskeys configurable is a good 
idea.

Hidden configuration options are of course problematic from a usability point 
of few, on the other hand the Ctrl key was a choice with usability problems 
itself. 

For accessibility, the webpage-defined shortcuts are necessary (they are part 
of standards), and the fallback shortcuts are a nice addition,

Defaulting to only show the webpage-defined accesskeys seems like an 
acceptable compromise to me. I am cc'ing the kde-hci list the usability team 
can comment on it.

For KDE 4, we need to generally improve keyboard navigation in KDE, for 
example making Plasma fully keyboard accessible, We can then define new 
general keyboard shortcuts for KDE that include fallback accesskeys.

Olaf


[ Aaron J. Seigo ]
> hi all...
>
> i'm sure you've hit CTRL in konqi and seen the billion access keys popup up
> all over the page. better yet is when it happens in kmail ;)
>
> attached is a patch that disables fallback keys by default, but makes them
> configurable. i'd like to commit this for 3.5.2 as well as to trunk/
>
> in future i think it would make sense to add this into the accessibility
> world of kde much as we do with slow keys, etc ....
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