KeybNav: A new system for web navigation through a keyboard

Abstract

Accessibility guidelines [1]–[3] emphasize the need to allow the user to interact with web pages not only through a pointing device, but through the keyboard as well. The specification of HTML4 [4] came with the access keys but they have resulted in an unexpected failure [5]. This paper proposes a new system which deters conflicts between web page access keys and keyboard shortcuts used by various OS applications.