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Use with any technology that enables shortcuts consisting only of one or more character keys.
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The objective of this technique is to ensure that character-key shortcuts, which are useful for some users but cause trouble for others, can be remapped by users who find them troublesome. These users include speech input users and some mobile users. There should be a clear way, such as a dialog box, for users to see where single-key shortcuts shortcuts are mapped and remap them. Choices Of keys for remapping should include, but don’t have to be limited to, modifier keys. A best practice is including the ability to map up to 25 character keys as a shortcut. This allows a speech input user to add a spoken shortcut that would work in any speech program
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A dialog box could contain rows of functions followed by their character-key shortcuts followed by editable fields where users could input new shortcuts including character keys, and modifier keys, and including as many as 25 character keys in a row.
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