23615 2013-10-23 20:06:58 +0000 Subject: Physical Keys and Gestures for "accesskey" attribute The use of ASCII/Unicode code points for key binding has numerous well-known drawbacks. There are vital physical keyboard keys with no Unicode representation. Even for the main alphabet keys sp 2016-01-21 13:23:20 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML.next default unspecified Other other RESOLVED MOVED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top a11y, a11ytf, a11y_focus P3 normal --- 11140 10888 23613 1 mark.sadecki+w3c chaals ayg chaals contributor cooper hans.hillen ian laura.lee.carlson mike public-html-a11y public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 95234 0 mark.sadecki+w3c 2013-10-23 20:06:58 +0000 +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #11140 +++ Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top Comment: Subject: Physical Keys and Gestures for "accesskey" attribute The use of ASCII/Unicode code points for key binding has numerous well-known drawbacks. There are vital physical keyboard keys with no Unicode representation. Even for the main alphabet keys specifying a stabile physical location based on ergonomic considerations, regardless of keyboard mapping, may be desirable. Unicode keybinding is useful for mnemonic keys however. So for "accesskey" there should be a complete set of keywords representing the physical keyboard keys -- referenced based on the locations on U.S. standard keyboards, with names like "jKey", "slashKey", "leftArrow", "capsLock". All keys should be represented including alphabet keys, F-keys, modifier keys, cap lock, etc., and there should be syntax for indicating simultaneous key presses (e.g. Control + uparrow). A set of "media" keys would also be highly desirable (e.g. keyboard volume/mute keys bindable to controls of an HTML5 video interface) although this may not be standardizable. But keys are so 2009. We of course also now need keywords for swipe gestures, e.g: [a href="page_2.html" accesskey="rightArrow horizLeftwardSwipe"]Turn Page[/a]. Posted from: 75.36.155.97 124657 1 chaals 2016-01-21 13:23:20 +0000 Moved to Github: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/21