accesskeys

[Paul Gillibrand]

Actually, I believe you simply press control and the relevant key to use
accesskeys on the Mac.  It's been a while since I did this though.  From
memory, I think they were introduced in Omniweb 5 and should also work
in Safari and Firefox on the Mac.  Unfortunately, I'm at work in front
of a Windows machine so I can't try any of this out at the moment.

Paul.


On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:40:28 +0100, "Jonathan Tyzack" <jtyzack at mac.com>
said:
> Hi Clytie,
> 
> I can't find any examples of what you mean without registering to log  
> in, but my immediate reaction would be that you won't be able to use  
> the shortcuts you have tried because they are system specific ones -  
> anything with just option- (aka alt) or option-shift as the delimiter  
> is going to be interpreted by the OS as a keyboard input for special  
> characters (as defined in Keyboard Viewer). This will have nothing to  
> do with browser. I would either try using option-control as your  
> shortcut delimiter, or switch to using Full Keyboard Access as a  
> means of selecting the buttons themselves within the browser window.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> On 13 Jul 2005, at 06:08, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
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