Access keys are problematic - as mentioned previously they are often used by
various applications. IBM Homepage Reader uses numeral access keys, and if
you have numeral access keys in your site you will over-ride this.
Another option is to provide a structure of related pages using the
following:
<link rel="home" title="Home" href="index.asp" />
<link rel="up" title="Up" href="index.asp" />
<link rel="prev" title="Previous" href="languages.asp" />
<link rel="next" title="Next" href="about.asp" />
These links are used by screen readers and also browsers such as Opera to
assist in navigating through the site.
Cheers,
Gian
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Trick
Sent: Friday, 8 April 2005 5:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WSG] Access Key question
If your not one of those 'javascript-is-evil' people you could use
something like
window.onkeypress=access;
function access(event){
if(event.keyCode='[insert character here]'){
code to execute here;}
elseif(event.keyCode='[insert character here]'){
...etc...
}
I don't know how well this would work for screenreaders and such, but it
works for all the common browsers.
Alan Trick
tee wrote:
>I'd read a couple of blogs regarding the access keys, although opinion are
>spitted, I decided to implement access keys on my sites.
>While fixing my sites in different languages, I realized I cannot use the
>same access keys for both, say Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese,
>and here a disturbing question emerges. We can only use 26 alphabet + 0 to
9
>digit right? In this case there are only 36 access keys we can use. How can
>one solves this dilemma if a site involve with more than 36 pages?
>
>tee
>
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