Comments on: Being Internet Disabled

By: Gill

Gill — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:57:42 +0000

I hear you loud and clear, which is why I have a drawer full of mice of varying attachments just in case my Wacom stylus packs up.

It’s one thing being able to happily tab your way round your own site and client sites that you’ve spent ages making keyboard accessible but try to do it on all the stuff you really need and you’re climbing the walls big time.

We, as a web accessibility community, obviously need to shout louder to try and get through to the numpties who think they develop cool stuff.

By: Christophe from little Belgium

Christophe from little Belgium — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:56:04 +0000

To avoid tabbing, I use Find As You Type (FAYT) (SeaMonkey / Firefox). This feature is the main reason why I prefer SeaMonkey (or it’s little brother Firefox) over Opera. I have customized it to find only links, so when I see a link I want to follow, I just start typing some of the link text, until the link gets focus. (If there are several links with similar text, I press F3 to cycle though them. Unfortunately, Find As You Type doesn’t work for image links.) When the link I want gets focus, I press Control+Enter to open it in a new tab. It’s that simple.

Oh, and Find As You Type also works in the file list window in Windows Explorer (start typing the first letters of the file you need).

There’s much more that can be done from the keyboard than most people know.

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:24:10 +0000

You got to go to the pub and you think that’s a bad thing?

Anyway, optical mouse optical schmouse; try a Logitech Marble Mouse.