Access keys in head

cyberseed · Jul 6th, 2007, 11:49

If there a way of putting the access keys in a head of a document? I know you normally add them to the link. I tried this code below and it worked in IE6 but its not valid! Any help, yes please!

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Access keys</title>
<link href="css/global.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<a href="about-us.htm" accesskey="a"></a>
</head>
<body>
<div id="topnav"> 
  <p><a href="about-us.htm">about us</a> | <a href="contact-us.htm" accesskey="c">contact us</a> </p>
  <p>Access keys</p>
  <p>a=about us<br />
  c=contact us</p>
  <p>Alt then return for windows    </p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

pa007 · Jul 6th, 2007, 12:20

Why would you want to do this? What are you trying to achieve?

Pete.

cyberseed · Jul 6th, 2007, 17:20

Its a long winded answer Pete. I am trying to make a AA site using a cms joomla (we are almost there ish). I am looking for a component that will allow you to add access keys to the main menus but in the mean time I was going to add some to the template. I can add them to links in the content but the parameters in the dynamic menu system does not allow for this (yet). The only work around I can think of is to add access keys to the template and hide them with css, unless they can be added to the head in some way.

alexgeek · Aug 23rd, 2007, 03:34

What about putting it in an external javascript file:
document.write("'<a href="about-us.htm" accesskey="a></a>'")

cyberseed · Aug 23rd, 2007, 07:56

Thanks Alex thats a great idea. I have solved my problem by finding a component to plugin to the CMS thats works great. Thanks for the post.
Cheers