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From: Penny Roberts
Date: Aug 17, 2005 10:00AM


On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:22:56 -0400 "John Foliot - WATS.ca" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Accesskeys are broken - the W3C is deprecating them, let's collectively
> dump them into the waste-pile that already houses <blink> and <marquee>
> and move on shall we?

Oh I'm so glad to read that; I didn't know until I joined this list. A
colleague and I once spent an entire afternoon going through all the key
combinations that couldn't be used (because they were already in common
use for something else) and found ourselves with nothing much left that we
could use.

Penny

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Penny Roberts

Radcliffe Science Library

Oxford