The accesskey attribute sounds like a great idea at first. Being able to attach a keyboard shortcut to elements in an HTML document allows users to quickly jump to different parts of the page or trigger functionality without having to use a mouse.
The problem, as has been stated by Derek Featherstone in More reasons why we don’t use accesskeys, John Foliot in Using Accesskeys - Is it worth it?, and Jukka Korpela in Using accesskey attribute in HTML forms and links, to name a few, is that most current web browsers do not prevent shortcuts assigned
We've provided examples below that show that CSE HTML Validator can find problems and issues that other syntax checkers and validators (such as the popular W3C HTML Validator) cannot find. The testing was done with recent versions of CSE HTML Validator. Validate the source HTML document using the W3C HTML Validator and see how many problems/issues it misses (it misses ALL of them as of July 9, 2007). Even with all these issues, the W3C validator says that you may want to place an icon on your page to show your readers that you've taken the care to
Not so long ago, font tags (which are evil) provided a web designer’s only means of formatting an HTML document’s text for presentation within web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer™, Opera™ or Mozilla Firefox.
The trouble with font tags was that they were not only notoriously unreliable for presenting any given piece of information in the way initially intended by its author; they also bloated file sizes to almost insupportable proportions. In fact, even the text size setting of a browser could make a page’s content overlap or
HTML —which is short for HyperText Markup Language— is the official language of the World Wide Web and was first conceived in 1990. HTML is a product of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) which is a complex, technical specification describing markup languages, especially those used in electronic document exchange, document management, and document publishing. HTML was originally created to allow those who were not specialized in SGML to publish and exchange scientific and other technical documents. HTML especially facilitated this exchange