This page contains shortcut keys that will take you to major sections of the Department of Botany website.

To use these shortcut keys hold down the ALT key (PC) or CONTROL key (Apple Macintosh) and then one of the keys in the table below. In some browsers you may have to press Enter to confirm your choice. In the Opera browser press Shift-Esc, release those keys, and then press your chosen access key. In Firefox 2, press ALT-Shift and the key you want.

Key Function
0 University of Otago
1 Department of Botany
2 What is Botany?
3 Studying Botany
4 Postgraduate Research
5 Research
6 People
7 News
8 Contacts
9 Facilities
v Visiting Academics
b Botanical Society of Otago
a This accessibility page
d Disclaimer

Browser Shortcuts

The following table outlines modern browsers and the key combinations required.

Browser Windows Mac
Internet Explorer 6+ Alt+accesskey
Safari 3 Accesskeys not supported Ctrl+accesskey
Safari 4 Alt+accesskey (then hit Enter) Ctrl+Option+accesskey
Firefox 2+ Shift+Alt+accesskey Ctrl+accesskey
Opera 8+ Shift+Esc (then choose accesskey from the list) Shift+Esc (then choose accesskey from the list)

In most other web browsers, the user invokes the access key by pressing Alt (on PC) or Ctrl (on Mac) simultaneously with the appropriate accesskey character on the keyboard. Some browsers (for example Internet Explorer on Windows) then require you to hit the enter key.