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From: Konstantine
Date: Jan 2, 2006 12:20PM

On 12/31/05, John Foliot - WATS.ca < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Or not so subtle! <smile> Konstantine, I strongly urge you to not use
> accesskeys.
Hi John
Thanks for the clarification. I was hoping the situation would have
changed for the better since the articles were published. Obviously
not.

> If you absolutely feel you need to provide this type of
> functionality, I suggest you check out Gez Lemon's slick solution here:
Nice one, but unfortunately I do not have server-side options with the
site am building. I was going to define keys 1-6 only, for main
navigation links but I see it may cause more harm than good. I will go
with your advise and remove them and hope (naively?) there will be a
universal solution someday.

Thanks for your time
Regards
K.