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So everybody wants there website to be useable by the handicapped. Which of course means that sooner or later, your boss is gonna walk into your office and say
“Johnson, I want my disabled nephew to be able to navigate our site by the end of business on Friday.”
Now if you have an atypical boss, this demand will be levied on Monday morning, first thing, but as we all know, most bosses don’t work that way.
So what is a poor web-slinger to do? Well, one thing you could try is a little-used HTML attribute called access keys. Access keys allow you to associate a hyperlink in a webpage with a particular keystroke on the keyboard.
Sounds cool, right? So why is it used so sparingly? The reason is because only a small handful of the available browsers support this attribute.
For more on access keys, visit the article Accesskeys: Unlocking Hidden Navigation, over at the excellent site A List Apart.