Tabindex, Accesskey and others - shortcut navigation

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This page is a resource for finding out about shortcut navigation. It was written by Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org - because I was wondering about it, but I am likely to use the results as input to W3C working groups, especially WAI groups. It gathers links to some test pages and places.

This page may become obsolete, or I may stop maintaining it.

Last modified on $Date: 2000/01/17 17:07:43 $ by $Author: charles $

How it works:

Results Smmary:

Tabindex:

The first tabindex test page just provides some links, with two of them having tabindex attributes.

Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0 running under Windows select the links which have a tabindex sequentially (in the order of their tabindex) and then begin from the top selecting the rest of the links. Netscape under Windows, up to version 4.7, Opera 3.51, and Lynx under Linux seem to ignore the tabindex. Internet Explorer and Netscape on the Macintosh, and Netscape under Linux, do not seem to enable tabbing between links at all.

The second tabindex test page includes a form, and some links inside and outside it. There are tabindex attributes on some form elements and some links.

No results available yet

The third tabindex test page includes some links with a tabindex specifying a different order to normal

No results available yet

Accesskey:

I haven't made any test pages yet

Links grouped by map

I haven't made any test pages yet

Other ideas?

Please send them in...