accesskeys and keyboard navigation

parahuman offers an accessibility feature called accesskeys, which means that each page has a keyboard shortcut assigned to it. in case you haven't noticed already, the site navigation links at the top of every page have tooltips that show what its keyboard equivalent is. for example, the accesskey for the journal is J, the contact page is C, the about page is A, and so on.

the way to invoke an accesskey depends on your web browser and your computer's operating system. for example, to go to the journal in a browser in Windows or Linux, type Alt+J. on a Mac it would be Control+J.

accesskeys are not new (it was introduced in the HTML4 specification back in November, 2000), but they have been catching on slowly and steadily.

about this entry

this journal entry, accesskeys and keyboard navigation, was written on 20 April 2005. you can email this entry to yourself or a friend, or leave a comment to be shared below.

about the journal

does the world really need another weblog? i believe it does, and i explain some of my reasons why in the first entry, introducing the journal.

listed below are a handful of entries that have been read the most often. they offer a good sample of what the journal is about.

who's behind your website? 09 November 2005

why i don't do Gmail (for now) 06 April 2005

an alveary of holophrastic words 21 October 2005

la mira di Mira (the sight of Mira) 18 July 2005

10 things to do 15 July 2005

previous entries

why i don't do Gmail (for now) 06 April 2005

when digital dreams come true 27 March 2005

new features added to the journal 08 March 2005

introducing the journal 01 March 2005

subscriptions

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as far as i'm concerned, RSS could stand for Rather Sophisticated Stuff. if you're wondering what "feeds" or "aggregators" or what any of these other terms mean, both FeedBurner and the BBC News have good explanations that i recommend reading.

monthly archives

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