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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: May 16, 2003 5:19AM

Mathew,

The use of Accesskeys *has* been discussed on this list many times, but
welcome to the list anyway <grin>.

There seems to be a split opinion on Accesskeys (See:
http://wats.ca/resources/accesskeys/19), however, should you use them then
yes, setting the <span> to underline the Accesskey would be a good idea. Be
careful which key you choose, and avoid excessive use of Accesskeys... after
all, most users probably will not be returning to the page on a daily
basis... expecting them to remember more than 2 or 3 Accesskeys is probably
unreasonable.

Good Luck

JF

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