Gabriel Wicke wrote:
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 11:27 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
Most of the access keys no longer work with JavaScript disabled. This is puzzling, as it seems to defeat the 'accessibility' part. Is this intentional?
Yes. Acessibility doesn't necessarily mean no javascript. Afaik all common screenreaders i know of use js (they are based on IE), the ability to change the access keys will be useful to disabled users as well.
You can change them in JavaScript *after* they're set to defaults in the HTML. Shall we change all the "http://foo" URLs to "javascript:document.location='http://foo%27%22? After all, accessibility only means blind people using JavaScript, right! Sigh........
(However many of the keys need to be changed in the first place due to conflicts with existing browser shortcut keys as outlined in my earlier post on the subject.)
Go ahead, make a proposal or edit MediaWiki:Monobook.js. Hope the result isn't completely impossible to remember.
Thanks for your sympathy.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)