Closed Bug 322796 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Provide Option to Disable accesskey= handling

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 128452

People

(Reporter: rg, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 HTML accesskey= tags break FireFox usability in a big way for keyboard users. (See #303192 for another thread on this, I'm sure there are many.) Some users will never want to use the accesskey= functionality, preferring instead to use the browser's access keys. They should have a way to disable accesskey= handling for all pages. I'd envision a Tools->Options setting, but it would be fine if I had to manually edit a conf file somewhere to disable this. For an example of why this functionality would be useful, open any Wikipedia article (for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) and then try to close the tab (Alt-F C) or print the page (Alt-F P) from the keyboard. The fact that keyboard accelerators work differently on different pages is incredibly confusing behavior. My apologies if this is a dupe, I couldn't find anything like it in the search. Reproducible: Always
Dupe of bug 234625 which has been marked as a dupe of bug 128452. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128452 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
*** Bug 340805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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