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How to use the access keys in your browser

As of June 2007, the following information is believed to be accurate.

Opera. Hold down SHIFT whle pressing ESCAPE, release both keys, then press the accesskey.
Browsers for MAC OS excepting Opera. Hold down CONTROL while pressing the desired accesskey. Do not use COMMAND.
Except on MAC OS: Firefox 2+, Seamonkey 1+, and possibly Epiphany 2+. On Windows, hold down SHIFT while pressing ALT and the accesskey. On Linux, hold down SHIFT whle pressing CONTROL and the accesskey. Enter numeric accesskeys on the numeric keypad with NUMLOCK turned OFF. To change this behavior, see 'Changing Mozilla's accesskey prefix' later in this document.
Except on MAC OS: Other browsers, including Firefox before v2. Hold the ALT key down while pressing the desired accesskey.
Extra step in Internet Explorer. In Internet Explorer, using an accesskey only highlights the associated link. Press ENTER to activate it.
Access Key Companion. You can mitigate conflicts between accesskeys and browser menu keys with the Access Key Companion - juicystudio.com. This bookmarklet, which works in most browsers, displays accesskeys as a list of selectable links and lets you disable them.

Site Navigation Aids

Our pages support the browser site navigation bar feature. This provide quick links to the home page, contents, and so forth. Netscape 6, Mozilla, and Seamonkey users can activate this by selecting the View menu, Show/Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always). Users of Konqueror 3.3 or up can activate it by selecting the Tools menu, Document Relations, Configure, When necessary (or Always On). Users of Firefox may add the site navigation bar - addons.mozilla.org. Users of Internet Explorer 5 or up under Windows 98 or or up may add the LinkBar - www.draig.de. These take only a minute or two to obtain even on a dial-up connection.

Our pages also use structured headings, so users of screen readers can skip from heading to heading (for example, in JAWS, pressing ALT+INSERT+3).

Accessibility Statement

Our pages are intended to be widely accessible. You may note several buttons at the bottom of our pages. These claim that our pages meet certain requirements and also run tests that help us make sure our pages should be accessible:

DC.Metadata. You may use this button to display citation information encoded in the page per Dublin Core - en.wikipedia.org recommendations. The button does not display the better known HTML meta description and keywords.
W3C HTML 4.01 Check. This icon claims that the W3C HTML Validation Service - validator.w3.org found no hypertext markup language - en.wikipedia.org syntax errors in the page. Pressing it runs the test again. We use this test because avoiding HTML syntax errors greatly improves the chance that a page will be readable in all browsers.
W3C CSS Check. This button claims that the W3C CSS Validation Service - jigsaw.w3.org found no Cascading Style Sheets - en.wikipedia.org syntax errors in the page. Pressing it runs the test again. We use this test because avoiding CSS syntax errors greatly improves the chance that a page will display as intended in most browsers.
Checker A. This button claims that the Adaptive Technology Resource Center Checker - checker.atrc.utoronto.ca, a service of the University of Toronto, found no first order 'level A' accessibility errors in the page, and that the submitter reviewed the other identified checkpoints and concluded that the page met Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Level A - www.w3.org. Pressing the button runs the test again. We use this test because it helps make it easier for everyone, including people with disabilities and search engine robots, to access the content of our pags.

It is hoped that these checks help make our pages widely accessible, easily indexed, and viewable in any browser - www.anybrowser.org.

Privacy Statement

We haven't yet developed a formal privacy policy for the website. However, unless you contact us by phone, postal mail, or e-mail, we don't collect any personally identifiable information. If you do contact us, we will only use your personal information, such as e-mail, to respond. We will not disclose your addresses to others, and we do not maintain a mailing list of our own.

There are web server logs, which will contain the IP address you had when you visited, certain computer information (such as your browser version), and the page(s) you viewed. However, if you are a dialup user, you generally would get a new IP address every time you dial in, and if you are a cable modem user, every time your modem is reset. We are also using a statistical counter of page view on the various pages. This service may also allow us to see search terms you entered to find our pages. But such information is not personally identifiable, is used only for statistical purposes, and short of a court order, it is never released.

Changing Mozilla's Access Key Prefix

For Mozilla based browsers including Firefox and Seamonkey, you can change the access key prefix. In Firefox 2+ and Seamonkey, the three key sequence with SHIFT may render numeric accesskeys nearly inaccessible, particularly to people with motor skill disabilities or cognitive decline. You can change the prefix to the traditional ALT key. Open the pseudo URL 'about:config', and enter the filter 'ui.key'. Change ui.key.generalAccessKey to 18 ALT. To reduce conflicts with menu access, you can also change ui.key.menuAccessKey to 27 ESCAPE. After restarting the browser, ESCAPE keys always get browser menus and ALT keys get web page accesskeys unless entered on the numeric keypad with NUMLOCK OFF, in which case they get special characters.

Why don't the access keys work?

You should check your system's documentation, because the information we have collected is neither authoritative nor complete. However, numeric access keys are known to be unsupported by IBM Home Page Reader and Windows Eyes and by older browsers. The minimum version required for accesskey support in several of the better known browsers is given below.

Designed to be cross platform and available for Linux, Mac, and Windows:
- Firefox 1+ - www.mozilla.com;
- Mozilla 1+ - www.mozilla.org;
- Netscape Navigator 6+ - browser.netscape.com (branded Mozilla);
- Opera 6+ - www.opera.com; and
- Seamonkey 1+ - www.mozilla.org (Mozilla successor).
Designed for Linux:
- Epiphany 1+ - www.gnome.org for the GNOME desktop;
- Galeon 1+ - galeon.sourceforge.net for the GNOME desktop; and
- Konqueror 3.3+ - www.konqueror.org for the KDE desktop.
Designed for the Mac Desktop:
- Camino 1+ - www.mozilla.org;
- iCab 2.8+ - www.icab.de (also for Mac OS 9);
- OmniWeb 5.1+ - www.omnigroup.com; and
- Safari 1.2+ - www.apple.com (also available for Windows).
Designed for the Windows Desktop:
- Internet Explorer 4+ - www.microsoft.com (IE5 was also available for Mac but is no longer offered); and
- K-Meleon - kmeleon.sourceforge.net.

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