A computer program will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want it to do.
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Following on from the post on December 16th (Access Keys - A Potential Solution), there has been an almost immediate response in the form of a set of PHP scripts that should, simultaneously, allow users to set their own access keys and reveal any keys they have already set.
There has been an almost continious debate within GAWDS on the role of access keys.
Grant Broome has argued strongly, in the past, that access keys could be an extremely important facility for some user groups. John Foliot, on the other hand, has focussed on the dangers of poorly-implemented accesskeys and concluded that they were probably best avoided.
The wrist now appears to be recovering a little - thanks to two physiotherapy sessions per week - but I’m appalled by how much functionality I have lost.
In order for a hand grip to be classed as “functional”, it needs to be able to exert a pressure of 6kg. 4kgs, at the very outside. When my left hand grip was initially assessed, I managed a measly 2kg once and 1kg the rest of the time. No wonder I didn’t want to drive anywhere!
When linking to documents in proprietary formats (such as PDF documents), some pages present the link as:
“PDF Document name (300KB)”
On the face of it, there’s nothing wrong with that. The user is being presented with all of the necessary information - document format; document name and document size.
Now imagine you’re using a screenreader to read a list containing a dozen different links to PDF files.