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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Mar 27, 2002 10:08AM

The W3C would never recommend any particular key binding for a
function. They may point to a convention that is used by another group,
but only as an informative note to the reader.

Jon

At 11:49 AM 3/27/2002 -0500, John Foliot - bytown internet wrote:
>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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