First letter property for links in CSS

[Peter Jenkins]

Can anyone suggest a better/clearer guide than this
A List Apart article? http://www.alistapart.com/stories/accesskeys/

It appears to be not quite right as when I do as it suggests...
it doesn't work. What I am trying to do is make the first letter
of certain links bold, but not others (for Access keys),
while also retaining rollover effects in IE5/5.5/6 (which account
for 90-95% of my audience). Have set the requisite links to
display:block, set the first-letter psuedo-class for the link I am
wanting to make an accesskeyed link.... but it does not seem
to work..
Regards
Peter J

[Jonathan Snook]

"Peter Jenkins" <pe************ *************** ***********@xtr a.co.enzed>
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for 90-95% of my audience). Have set the requisite links to
display:block, set the first-letter psuedo-class for the link I am
wanting to make an accesskeyed link.... but it does not seem
to work..

I did a quick test with this and it worked. Also, from what I've read,
"first-letter" only works in IE5.5+ and not IE5.0.

<style type="text/css">
div:first-letter {font-weight:700;}
</style>

<div>Test</div>

Good luck to yah.
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[Jukka K. Korpela]

"Peter Jenkins"
<pe************ *************** ***********@xtr a.co.enzed> wrote:

Can anyone suggest a better/clearer guide than this
A List Apart article? http://www.alistapart.com/stories/accesskeys/

Regarding access keys, the basic guide is very simple:
Don't.

Keyboard shortcuts are essential, even indispensable to many users, and
potentially useful to all. That's why so many programs, including
browsers, have such shortcuts. And exactly for this reason the very
idea of accesskey attributes, when meant to live in the same shortcut
"name space" as program control shortcuts, is a bad idea. The idea
becomes much worse when made into a WAI recommendation that makes
people think that accesskey attributes improve, rather than disrupt,
accessibility, and _must_ be used - even in trivial cases where we have
a small list of links.

For a detailed explanation, see my treatise on accesskey attributes,
written mostly when I was much more optimistic about the idea than now:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html

Note that this issue is rather separate from what you have written on
the Subject line, which asks a question that would be quite
topic-here if it were your real question.

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Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

[Peter Jenkins]

Thank you for that!
I have to admit, this will make life MUCH easier, I have been
getting very frustrated with this, trying to get it working across
all 450 odd pages of the site I look after.

I'll see what other people think here, but I think I'll just stick
to having all text links, letting the user set all font sizes, and
using CSS for layout. The latter is hard enough... particularly
seeing as I'm not getting paid for this..
:-)
Regards
Peter J
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"Peter Jenkins"
<pe************ *************** ***********@xtr a.co.enzed> wrote:

Can anyone suggest a better/clearer guide than this
A List Apart article? http://www.alistapart.com/stories/accesskeys/

Regarding access keys, the basic guide is very simple:
Don't.

Keyboard shortcuts are essential, even indispensable to many users, and
potentially useful to all. That's why so many programs, including
browsers, have such shortcuts. And exactly for this reason the very
idea of accesskey attributes, when meant to live in the same shortcut
"name space" as program control shortcuts, is a bad idea. The idea
becomes much worse when made into a WAI recommendation that makes
people think that accesskey attributes improve, rather than disrupt,
accessibility, and _must_ be used - even in trivial cases where we have
a small list of links.

For a detailed explanation, see my treatise on accesskey attributes,
written mostly when I was much more optimistic about the idea than now:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html

Note that this issue is rather separate from what you have written on
the Subject line, which asks a question that would be quite
topic-here if it were your real question.

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html