Blind Users and the Access Key function.

[CapereSpiritum]

Hi, I'm making a website for a Blind Singer in the UK.

He's asked if the Access Key function in the Options window of the WYSIWYG can be used for Keyboard shortcut navigation of the website.

He has quite a few blind and partially sighted visitors to his current website and wishes to make their visits as easy as possible.

I'd appreciate any suggestions or help in this matter.

The website can be seen at http://www.rikkyjames.com/CMS/
When finished it will be under www.rikkyjames.com

[reneh]

Yes the intension of Access Key is to make shortcuts to set pages on a site. But unfortunately its not a fixed standard. And the key combination to use it is different on different browsers. Alt+ on IE, Shift+Alt+ on FF etc. AND if you are setting a shortcut its often in conflict with other extensions in the browser... My personally experience is that its hard to make it work - at least for FF browser....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_key
http://reference.sitepoint.com/html/a/accesskey

A very often followed standard is at least to offer: 1 = homepage, 4 = search, 9 = contact


The access keys is not automatically showing. So the next target is then how to tell the users witch keys are set so they actually use them....

To make templates in cmsms show this automatic as tooltip and enable the accesskey you need to use the accessible_... menu templates or add code similar to these. The code to look for is like this ... accesskey="{$node->accesskey}" ....
You could probably steal more ideas also from these templates....

Best luck!