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Subject:  How disabled users access the Internet
Author:   PaulAlburquerque:   view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites
Date:   14:50:16 21 July 2005
 
A client is interested in adding access keys to their
website particularly given the relevance to their
audience. I'm looking for best practice examples of
their useage.

Other than the Nomensa article here, is
their other examples or commonly accepted norms of
standards for access keys, other than sitemap (3),
contact (9), homepage (1) and accessibilty (0)

I found it bizarre that the cabinet office publish
information about suggested best practice for access key settings:

scroll down mid way the page of:

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/e-government/resourc
es/handbook/html/2-4.asp

and then the very same mandarins flagrantly violate
their own standards. Click alt+0 from the above page
to reach:
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/e-government/viewing.
asp 

which shows a different set of access key settings!

It also seems a shame that london2012.org, otherwise
impecable website, whose winning bid was so
centered on inclusiveness, paralympics and
minorities, manages to offer a page not found 404
error, albeit with a pretty logo message, because of
html coding oversight.

Finally, is it possible to track the useage of access
keys in any web analytics way?
 
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      • How disabled users access the Internet, PaulAlburquerque, 21 Jul 14:50
        A client is interested in adding access keys to their website particularly given the relevance to their audience. I'm looking for best practice examples of their useage ...
        • How disabled users access the Internet, fjordaan , 21 Jul 15:05
          Access keys are a controversial subject, and many accessibility experts advise against using them at all. The reasons are best explained in this article (also see the related artic ...
          • How disabled users access the Internet, PaulAlburquerque, 21 Jul 16:02
            Thanks for your insightful info. It seems that theory and practice of standards in this area is a murky one particularly given the conflict of other applications vying for the s ...
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              • How disabled users access the Internet, PaulAlburquerque, 21 Jul 16:39
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