Skip to content
This repository has been archived by the owner on Jun 30, 2018. It is now read-only.

Characters #660

Closed
jrpool opened this issue Jan 4, 2018 · 1 comment
Closed

Characters #660

jrpool opened this issue Jan 4, 2018 · 1 comment

Comments

@jrpool
Copy link

jrpool commented Jan 4, 2018

“the Space and Enter keys, which return empty spaces rather than characters, are not character keys” seems confusing, because the space character is a character, as that word is customarily used. There is a larger set of whitespace characters in Unicode. The quoted statement does not make it clear whether the keys that produce those characters are to be classified as “character keys”. An example of an expert who classifies space not only as a character but also as a printable character is http://web.itu.edu.tr/sgunduz/courses/mikroisl/ascii.html. It could be better to invent a term, if necessary, to designate the set of characters that are covered by Success Criterion 2.4.11. This issue relates to #386 and to #659.

@awkawk
Copy link
Member

awkawk commented Jan 21, 2018

(Official WG Response)
Thank you for the comment. We have clarified the criterion to ensure that Space and Enter are not referred to incorrectly. The updated SC can be viewed at: http://rawgit.com/w3c/wcag21/master/guidelines/index.html#character-key-shortcuts

@awkawk awkawk closed this as completed Jan 21, 2018
Sign up for free to subscribe to this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in.
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants