RE: Microsoft patented keyboard-navigation?

"Rotan Hanrahan" <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:27:07 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.accessibility.tools,gmane.org.w3c.accessibility.guidelines
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