HTML, XHTML, & CSS, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide

Creating Keyboard Shortcuts for Links

Keyboard shortcuts let your visitors select and activate links without using a mouse.

Figure 6.17. Create a keyboard shortcut for a link by adding the accesskey attribute to its tag. The explanatory text (Alt-W, etc.) is optional but helpful.

To add a keyboard shortcut to a link:

1.	Inside the link’s tag, type accesskey=".
2.	Type the keyboard shortcut (any letter or number).
3.	Type the final ".
4.	If desired, add information about the keyboard shortcut to the text so that the visitor knows it exists.

Figure 6.18. There’s no way to tell if a link has a keyboard shortcut unless you’ve labeled it as ...