The Trouble with ACCESSKEY

Karl Dawson

That Standards Guy

The accesskey attribute

Link

  • http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-accesskey - HTML 4.01 Specification, Section 17.11.2 Access keys.

Using access keys

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Links

  • http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/#tech-keyboard-shortcuts - Checkpoint 9.5.
  • http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/e-government/resources/handbook/html/2-4.asp - UK government universal accessibility checklist.

The problem

Link

  • http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm - ALT key codes and charts.

The solution

Links

  • http://juicystudio.com/article/user-defined-accesskeys.php - Gez Lemon's User-defined accesskeys in PHP.
  • http://juicystudio.com/article/user-defined-access-keys-aspversion.php - Gez Lemon's User-defined accesskeys in ASP.

Thank you!

Another "5-minute" presentation to the Refresh Cambridge group.

Slideshow available at http://thatstandardsguy.co.uk/presentations/accesskey/

Powered by Eric Meyer's S5 - a Simple, Standards-Based Slide Show System.

Links

  • http://refreshcambridge.org - Refresh Cambridge.
  • http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ - Eric Meyer's S5 slideshow system.