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robbear7
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 Posted - 01 June 2001 : 11:08:08
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I am working for a site for the non profit org I work for. We work with people with disabilities, and I am trying to create a complete accessible site. My question is, is there a way a mod could be written to implement keyboard navigation to any possible links in snitz? I have never written a mod, but if someone could point me in the right direction, I could run with it ,or if someone is interested in writing a mod (if it is even possible) for the good of a non profit for disabilites website? You can see what I mean for keyboard navigations if you go to http://www.rip-cord.org. and check out the menu on the top. Please note that the site is not finished, in addition, the colours are.... yuck..
Thanks in advance for any help!
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work mule
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 01 June 2001 : 11:19:08
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Interesting...
The one problem though is that they're doing it this javascript keypress thing. Basically you hit a key and it loads a new page. Problem though is that if you try to sign up with their email newsletter - you go type in your email address - if you type one of those letters, it reloads the page and you can't complete your typing.
Good idea, good try, but.... ;)
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work mule
Senior Member
USA
1358 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2001 : 11:27:28
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Could it be what you're looking for was the accessKey attribute for <a> elements?
Very limited support, IE4+ (but Mac).
You press Ctrl, Alt, Command plus the letter.
Don't forget about TabIndex too. I don't recall if this is taken care of in the Snitz forms or not.
In regards to colors, you really have a small range of colors to work with when you consider color blind people. Sites that make themselves friendly to people with disabilities tend to take that into account.
A good resource:
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/dev/web/default.htm
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robbear7
Junior Member
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Posted - 01 June 2001 : 19:06:51
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Thank you for your replies. Both of you brought up some really good points relating to website accessibility. I appreciate the comments, suggestions and links. As for the snitz forums, I guess there is not to much to be done for keyboard navigation. Any ideas for the sitz forum to make it more accessible? Thanks in advance!
-Robbear7
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robbear7
Junior Member
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Posted - 01 June 2001 : 19:06:57
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Thank you for your replies. Both of you brought up some really good points relating to website accessibility. I appreciate the comments, suggestions and links. As for the snitz forums, I guess there is not to much to be done for keyboard navigation. Any ideas for the sitz forum to make it more accessible? Thanks in advance!
-Robbear7
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robbear7
Junior Member
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Posted - 01 June 2001 : 19:07:54
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woops, sorry for the double post, got a little trigger happy there 
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