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Re: Next and Previous Accesskey

for

From: John Britsios
Date: Oct 6, 2003 11:06AM

Use numbers for accesskeys:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2003AprJun/0117.html

John Britsios
Web Accessibility and Usability Consultant

My forum: http://www.webnauts.net/phpBB2/index.php




----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Pearson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 6:11 PM
Subject: RE: Next and Previous Accesskey


> >> I would be very interested in any articles on recommended ACCESSKEY
> attribute
> assignments. Could you post the links?
>
> http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_15_defining_keyboard_shortcuts.html
>
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html
>
> are a few good ones.
>
> >> Specificaly on your question, I'm not sure that accesskeys are
necessary
> at all
> for Next and Previous page, since browsers support this navigation by
> default.
>
> Do you mean using <link> tags in the <head> section? If so, I think MSIE
> doesn't support those. Or if it does, I'm not seeing it. (I agree they are
a
> good idea.)
>
> >> We decided to use numbers rather than letters, to minimise conflicts
with
> browsers and screen-readers, and avoid language dependencies.
>
> Same here.
>
> -- Randy
>
>
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