Test of ACCESSKEY Pointing to MAP Inline

Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org> 1999-08-25

The client-side image map without any AREA, but instead %block; should display its contents, and the accesskey 'n' of HTML 4.0 strict DTD should jump to the first href of this MAP from anywhere. For example, a navigation bar might be represented as:

The accesskey binding is made effective upon pressing ALT-N (case insensitive) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 running under Windows '98 Second Edition. The placement of the accesskey assignment causes the point of focus to move to "some link" in the navigation bar, the one whose attlist has both a name and accesskey assignment associated with that name. The link indicated there to the place with content "Some link" is initiated by normal selection of that link.

Use of an access key consistently for all pages aids in finding the nav bar indirectly via that accesskey.

Target for some link.
Target for other link.

This potentially useful accesskey machanism seems to fail for Amaya V2.0a, Netscape Navigator 4.61, Opera 3.60, and pwWEBSPEAK. So it does not seem to be a viable current solution.