Setting memonic keys to form controls

[Guest]

I'm a developer for a state agency and when making a database everything has
to be "accessable." What this means is that a blind individual using a
screen reader(Such as JAWS) would be able to use my database/website/etc. In
the sense of making things more accessable for my user, I was wondering if
there is a way to set up memonic keys/shortcut keys for controls.

For example, in one form I have a combo box that allows the user to select a
consumer name, after a name is selected, all records for that consumer is
loaded into a subform. Blind people use the page up/page down keys to
navigate through records, but have trouble navigating back up to the main
form if they wanted to select a different consumer. So I would like to set
the combo box to where the user could push, say Alt+Y and it would take them
to that combo box.

TYIA for any help and answer. Also, I am using Access 2000.

Thanks,
Will

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

In the label attached to your combo box, place an ampersand (&) in front of
the letter you want to use as the shortcut key. The ampersand will not be
displayed, instead the letter will be underlined and will function as a
shortcut key.