FS#1499 accesskey attribute can cause conflicting keyboard shortcuts

CSS, XHTML, JS, Browsers

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  2008-09-25 dotjay

  The default DokuWiki template includes an accesskey attribute for the home page of the wiki in tpl_logo():
  
  ... accesskey="h" title="[ALT+H]" ...
  
  It may be useful, but it can conflict with other useful keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Help:
  http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/articles/too-much-accessibility/too-too-much-accessibility-accesskeys/
  http://www.wats.ca/show.php?contentid=43
  
  There isn't much of a solution, but it is recommended that numbers be used for accesskey attributes to reduce the problem. There is a government standard that recommends a standard for access keys, which sets "home" as the number 1:
  http://www.clagnut.com/blog/193/
  
  
  
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  2008-09-27 dotjay

  Noting further letter-based accesskeys in use:
  http://www.dokuwiki.org/accesskeys
  
  To emphasise my point, this can be a real problem for people who rely on keyboard shortcuts, rather than an aid. An alternative solution is to allow users to set their own shortcuts to use keys that they know will work for them:
  http://juicystudio.com/article/user-defined-accesskeys.php
• 

  2008-10-11 chi

  Won't fix.
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