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From: Paul Bohman
Date: Feb 27, 2002 12:02PM

Actually, let me clarify your clarifications.

1. Netscape: For the most part, Netscape 6 does tab well. The only
instance in which it does not (in my experience) is when the CSS
attribute "positioning: absolute" is used. The test page that I created
uses this CSS attribute. With other CSS attributes, Netscape 6 seems to
do very well. Hopefully they'll also support the "positioning: absolute"
keyboard access in future releases.

2. Opera: My test pages are fully keyboard-accessible. You just have to
be aware of the fact that Opera has different keyboard shortcuts. You
don't use the tab key to go from link to link in Opera. You use the "a"
key to go forward and the "q" key to go backward. So it is inaccurate to
talk about "tabbing" from link to link in Opera. The tab key in Opera is
used for navigating through forms rather than links.

Paul Bohman
Technology Coordinator
WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind)
www.webaim.org
Center for Persons with Disabilities
www.cpd.usu.edu
Utah State University
www.usu.edu