Laurie McArthur, our assistive technology guru here at the ATRC, had a comment on this issue:
On 7-Jul-08, at 9:08 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote: > >> >> I could see a situation in which someone using a screen reader might >> press enter to start editing, and then the screen reader starts to >> read the contents of the field, and the user, who knows the contents >> and wants to change it anyway, might press escape to shut the screen >> reader up. On 7-Jul-08, at 4:34 PM, Laurie McArthur wrote: > > The escape key – is actually a dangerous one to use to “shut up” the > screen reader. The control key is the official one to do this. > > .... the Escape key is really to cancel actions (eg stop loading a > web page etc).. not to control the screen reader. -- Anastasia Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Designer, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
