accesskeys

[Clytie Siddall]

Hi guys :)

Long time no e: difficult (non-technical) to post, but I need to sort  
this one out if possible.

The Pootle online translation tool:

http://pootle.wordforge.org/

now implements accesskeys, so the user can have keyboard control over  
a number of buttons on which one would otherwise click (e.g. to  
submit that string, copy the original string, skip that string). I  
need this facility, since I have difficulty controlling the mouse.

However, in OmniWeb, these accesskeys don't appear to do anything.

I'm mapping the "alt" key to "option": is that right? My iBook  
keyboard has them both on that key.

Option-S just gives me the German ß, using any keyboard layout. It  
doesn't submit the string, as assigned.

Does OmniWeb support accesskeys? How can I start using them? If not  
through OmniWeb, Is it possible to use the OSX Keyboard Shortcuts and/ 
or Keyboard Maestro to use them?

Further information on accesskeys below, from a very helpful and well- 
informed member of our Pootle community:

Thankyou for any help you can offer with this. :)

On 12/07/2005, at 9:03 PM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:

> The accesskey is part of the HTML standard and the usage depends on  
> your browser and how it implements it.
> For example, on Firefox it allows one access key (I suppose most  
> proper implementations allow only one)
> and you cannot define multiple ones for the same button. Actually  
> it makes sense for this.
> In addition, Alt+<letter> sometimes conflicts with the File/Edit/ 
> View/etc menus of the browser, so if
> you have a localised browser, you end up opening the browser menus.
>
> You will have to check with the OmniWeb people on how they  
> implement access keys in a foreign language.
> The Alt-S giving the german ß probably means at there are a few  
> Alt-?  shortcuts to type accented keys, a poor
> decision.
> Try out Safari or Firefox and see how they behave on this.
>
> For testing accesskeys, have a look at http://www.cs.tut.fi/ 
> ~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html
>
> The proper documentation page for access keys is of course:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html

from Clytie

Clytie Siddall -- Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia