The interactive buttons surrounding the liberal and ARTS graphics above have been removed because now we want to focus on the text links in the "footer" area of the page below.

If you make sure your mouse or pointer is not over any of the text links below, all of the links should appear in green with a background color that is the same as the rest of the page.

If you now move your mouse over the links, the background color changes to yellow; the text color changes to red; and the text is underlined. So far, so good.

Did you know that you can "step" through all of the links on a web page with the Tab key?

Try it: repeatedly press the Tab key:

• Your first stop will probably be the address bar, which should contain the address of this page.
• Your next stop should be "COLA Home Page"; this should be indicated by a dotted border [all the way] around the text.
• Repeatedly pressing the Tab key should "step" through all of the links on this page. Once you reach the end, if you press the Tab key again you should go back to the top, beginning with the address bar (assuming that your address bar is showing).

What is the problem? Tabbing through all of the text links did not cause the same changes as using the mouse. That is, a visitor using the keyboard will not have the same benefit or effect as a visitor browsing the page with a mouse. "Web accessibility" requires that the visitor's benefit or the effect be the same, whether the visitor is using a mouse or the keyboard.

This deficiency is easily corrected: a page where the focus effect is the same for mouse and keyboard