RE: Highlighting some text on a web page using the keyboard - How to do it?

IBM's Home Page Reader also supports marking text using "Windows Cursor
Reading Mode," ALT+N. Then shift and arrow keys work just like you would
expect in an editor. 

Jim
508 Web Accessibility Tutorial http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm.
"Constructing Accessible Web Sites:"  http://jimthatcher.com/news.htm

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Subject: RE: Highlighting some text on a web page using the keyboard -
How to do it?


Netscape 7 in windows allows highlighted text from the keyboard.

Jim Allan, Webmaster & Statewide Technical Support Specialist
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To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Highlighting some text on a web page using the keyboard -
How to do it?



On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Graham Oliver wrote:

>
> Is there a way of highlighting some text on a web page using the
keyboard
(one word or ideally two or more consecutive words)?

Erm, use a browser that supports it?

I'm not aware of such a browser, but then I haven't looked for one.
How is this an accessibility issue?

--
Nick Kew


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