
Access Key Input Mode (AIM)
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Figure 20: User presses “2” one time for “C” and the search result displays the desired
result - Oscar Hillard.
AIM Considerations
AIM mode cannot be enabled when the browser is not in focus.
AIM maintains dialpad control while loading one, or multiple, new Web pages as long as the
accesskey attribute is part of the page.
When a user presses a Dialpad button, or “access key,” the browser launches a URL without
displaying any characters to the user. The button press information is sent to the URL and the
Web page author returns subsequent screens. What the user views is up to the page author.
Access key supplies the mechanism to capture button press information and send that
information to a Web server.
The user is automatically in AIM when the page loads (attribute=accesskey) and can begin
pressing Dialpad buttons to send button press information. As an example, you may want to
have a link from your Home page to the AIM application or wherever else such a link makes
sense.
When a user clicks a button that has not been mapped to a URL and the browser is in AIM
mode, nothing happens.
Having a Clear softkey on the AIM page allows a user to clear previous search results and start
a new search. The page author must set up a Clear softkey that loads the first AIM page to
allow this action.
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