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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Mar 27, 2002 9:49AM

I have employed access keys on my site this way:

<.a href="#all" accesskey="z" tabindex="1" title="Skip All Navigation"><.img
src="images/shim.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="Skip All
Navigation - Access Key Z"></a><.a href="#primary" accesskey="x" title="Skip
Primary navigation block"><.img src="images/shim.gif" width="1" height="1"
border="0" alt="Skip Primary navigation block - Access Key X"></a><.a
href="features_e.html" accesskey="y" title="Accessibility Features of this
site"><.img src="images/shim.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0"
alt="Accessibility Features of this site - Access Key Y">

This code block appears at the top of every document. Since access keys
specifically benefit the visually impaired, the first links both provide the
"quick" navigation afforded by the "skip nav" function as well as a link to
a page explaining the accessibility features of the site; because it's
wrapped around an invisible gif it's an actual link (which even no-graphical
browsers can deal with), and the Alt text for the 3 gifs identify that there
are access keys being used on the site.

Jukka mentions assigning the Access Key of (zero) to the "Accessibility
Features" link (instead of my "Y")... Jukka, where is this being proposed?
Is it W3C, or elsewhere? I personally think that it would be a wonderful
idea if the development community could come to an agreement on this, and
perhaps a standardization.

Has anybody else seen anything like this? Jukka, could you point me (us) in
a direction?

Cheers!

JF


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