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By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com Guide to Web Design / HTML since 1997

Is accesskey really accessible?

Monday August 18, 2008
For a long time, it has been said that to make your forms and links more accessible, you should add an accesskey attribute to them. But does this really make them more accessible? There are some studies that have shown that doing this can make Web pages harder to use, which is, in effect, the opposite of accessibility.

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