>From the web page
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie5.htm

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5: Ready for Action

Microsoft+ Internet Explorer version 5 offers many new
accessibility enhancements while capitalizing on the solid array
of accessibility features built into earlier versions. In
addition, users with disabilities will find many useful
customization tools in the Web Accessories Kit.

Improved Support for Microsoft Active Accessibility

Internet Explorer supports Microsoft Active Accessibility+
(MSAA), a technology developed by Microsoft that allows
accessibility aids to communicate with the operating system and
applications via a common interface. Although this technology
isn't visible to the end user, developers of accessibility aids
use Active Accessibility to make better aids such as screen
readers, screen magnifiers, and speech input tools.

Waiting to upgrade?

If you've been waiting for a fuller implementation of MSAA
before upgrading to the Windows 98 operating system, or if your
assistive hardware or software worked really well with Internet
Explorer 3 and Windows 95 and you just didn't want to rock the
boat, now's the time to upgrade. (Internet Explorer 5 is
compatible, however, with Windows 95.)

Note: End users should verify the compatibility of their
accessibility aids and Internet Explorer 5 with accessibility
aid vendors.

New Accessibility Features

The following new features in Internet Explorer 5 make using the
Internet easier for people with disabilities.

  * Fewer keystrokes. Originally introduced in Microsoft Office,
    Microsoft IntelliSense+ technology is designed to save you
    time and keystrokes. People who have difficulty typing or
    use external input devices may appreciate these IntelliSense
    features:

AutoComplete. When you start to enter a Web site address in the
Address bar, a list of possible matches appears in a drop-down
box. If you want to go to a Favorite site simply enter its name
(instead of its address) in the Address bar. For example, if you
enter the word "Slate" (for Slate magazine), AutoComplete
searches your list of Favorites for a match and connects you to
Slate's home page.

You also won't have to reenter commonly used information such as
your name, address, and passwords because AutoComplete remembers
what's been entered previously and fills in the rest after the
first few letters have been entered. It even works in forms on
Web sites.

AutoCorrect automatically corrects typos that would otherwise
prevent you from connecting to the Web page you want.

AutoSearch improves the search process in several ways. For
example, you can enter a query directly into the Address bar
rather than opening an additional window. Search results appear,
as usual, in the left pane. Another time-saving feature is the
ability to repeat a search: If you don't get the search results
you want from one search service, just select Next and you can
automatically try your search with another service. Finally, for
more efficient searching, you can now select a general search
category such as Web page, address, name, business, map, or
previous search and then enter your search text.

  * View Web pages at your leisure. With the offline browsing
    feature of Internet Explorer 5, you can save the page on
    your computer and view it later offline.
  * Sorting your History list. With the sorting functionality of
    the History bar in Internet Explorer 5 you can easily
    retrace your path through the Web. In addition to viewing a
    list of pages you've visited by date, you can now filter the
    list in order of most visited to least visited, or by site.
    If you still can't spot the page you're looking for, choose
    Search and enter a word or phrase-Internet Explorer will
    find the pages in your History list that match.

Building on a Solid Foundation

The following features implemented in previous versions of
Internet Explorer have been supported in version 5 and deserve
another mention here!

  * Keyboard navigation. You can move to any focusable object by
    using the TAB key, including links, form control, and
    embedded objects. Use CTRL+TAB to move between frames. For
    more information on keyboard shortcuts, see Help in Internet
    Explorer 5.
  * Flexible display of HTML. Users can adjust fonts, font
    sizes, and color for text, backgrounds, and links.
  * Support for user style sheets. Advanced users can further
    customize the display of Web pages by setting their own
    Cascading Style Sheets. This advanced feature allows you to
    specify colors, fonts, and other style information.
  * Support for accessibility aids. Internet Explorer 5 works in
    conjunction with screen readers so that descriptive ALT text
    is displayed for images. System caret support allows aids to
    follow the selected link or control.
  * Working with Windows: Internet Explorer 5 responds to
    Windows high-contrast mode by turning off the background
    image, doubling the font size, and overriding fonts and
    colors specified by the Web page author.

Customizing Internet Explorer

Use the Web Accessories Kit to customize Internet Explorer 5.
The Accessories kit has several very useful features including:

  * Zoom In, Zoom Out for magnifying any image on a Web page.
  * Image Toggler for turning images on and off easily.
  * Text Highlighter for highlighting Web page text.
  * Quick Search for entering search text at the same time a
    search service is selected (for example, "av ActiveX" for
    AltaVista, Microsoft ActiveX+).
  * Links List for a list of all the links on a Web page.

Finding Instructions on Accessibility Features

Help is easy to get in Internet Explorer 5-just look for the
"Using accessibility features" topic for specific how-to
information.

How to access Help:

  * Choose Contents and Index from the Help menu of Internet
    Explorer 5 to display the introductory Help screen. The
    easiest way to get to the accessibility information is to
    press Alt +N to go to the Contents tab, shown at the left of
    the Help screen. (If this tabbed dialog box is not shown,
    choose the Show icon or press ALT+O for the Options menu and
    then choose "Show Tabs.")
  * In the Contents list, choose the Accessibility topic, and
    then choose "Using accessibility features in Internet
    Explorer." This helpful screen contains how-to information
    on disabling smooth scrolling, moving the system caret,
    customizing the font size, using keyboard shortcuts, and so
    on.

To print out the Keyboard Shortcuts topic:

  * With Internet Explorer window active, press ALT+ H.

  * From the Help menu, select "Contents and Index."

  * Press ALT+ N to display the Index tab.

  * Type in "shortcuts" in the Index text box. Select
    "shortcuts, keyboard".

  * Press ALT+O to display the Options menu.

  * To print the keyboard shortcuts, choose "Print..." .

This series of steps can be done for any of the topics in Help.
It also works with the Windows 98 and Office 2000 help systems.

Text-only version of this page

(c) 1997-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Legal
Notices.
Last updated on May 7, 1999.

  * Assistive technology developers: Want to join the Microsoft
    beta-testing program?
  * General information about Internet Explorer 5

Quick search tutorial

Most popular improvement: Say you've just tabbed through 20
links on a page to get to the one you want. You select it, go to
the associated Web page, and discover it's not what you're
looking for. Press Backspace, and guess what? Instead of landing
at the top of the previous page, you'll find yourself right
where you left off!

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 From the web page
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie5keys.htm

Internet Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts

You can use shortcut keys to view and explore Web pages, use the
Address bar, work with favorites, and edit.

Viewing and exploring Web pages

Press this    To do this

F1    Display the Internet Explorer Help, or when in a dialog
box, display context help on an item

F11    Toggle between Full Screen and regular view of the
browser window

TAB    Move forward through the items on a Web page, the Address
bar, and the Links bar

SHIFT+TAB    Move back through the items on a Web page, the
Address bar, and the Links bar

ALT+HOME    Go to your Home page

ALT+RIGHT ARROW    Go to the next page

ALT+LEFT ARROW or
BACKSPACE    Go to the previous page

SHIFT+F10    Display a shortcut menu for a link

CTRL+TAB or
F6    Move forward between frames

SHIFT+CTRL+TAB    Move back between frames

UP ARROW    Scroll toward the beginning of a document

DOWN ARROW    Scroll toward the end of a document

PAGE UP    Scroll toward the beginning of a document in larger
increments

PAGE DOWN    Scroll toward the end of a document in larger
increments

HOME    Move to the beginning of a document

END    Move to the end of a document

CTRL+F    Find on this page

F5 or
CTRL+R    Refresh the current Web page only if the time stamp
for the Web version and your locally stored version are
different

CTRL+F5    Refresh the current Web page, even if the time stamp
for the Web version and your locally stored version are the same

ESC    Stop downloading a page

CTRL+O or
CTRL+L    Go to a new location

CTRL+N    Open a new window

CTRL+W    Close the current window

CTRL+S    Save the current page

CTRL+P    Print the current page or active frame

ENTER    Activate a selected link

CTRL+E    Open Search in Explorer bar

CTRL+I    Open Favorites in Explorer bar

CTRL+H    Open History in Explorer bar

CTRL+click    In History or Favorites bars, open multiple
folders

Using the Address bar

Press this    To do this

ALT+D    Select the text in the Address bar

F4    Display the Address bar history

CTRL+LEFT ARROW    When in the Address bar, move the cursor left
to the next logical break (. or /)

CTRL+RIGHT ARROW    When in the Address bar, move the cursor
right to the next logical break (. or /)

CTRL+ENTER    Add "www." to the beginning and ".com" to the end
of the text typed in the Address bar

UP ARROW    Move forward through the list of AutoComplete
matches

DOWN ARROW    Move back through the list of AutoComplete matches

Working with favorites

Press this    To do this

CTRL+D    Add the current page to your favorites

CTRL+B    Open the Organize Favorites dialog box

ALT+UP ARROW    Move selected item up in the Favorites list in
the Organize Favorites dialog box

ALT+DOWN ARROW    Move selected item down in the Favorites list
in the Organize Favorites dialog box

Editing

Press this    To do this

CTRL+X    Remove the selected items and copy them to the
Clipboard

CTRL+C    Copy the selected items to the Clipboard

CTRL+V    Insert the contents of the Clipboard at the selected
location

CTRL+A    Select all items on the current Web page


(c) 1997-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Last updated on May 7, 1999.


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