HTML accesskey 'e' not working in Chrome

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mtk picture mtk · Jul 30, 2012 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

I assigned access key e to email input field in a simple html form. I am currently testing this in chrome. So on pressing Alt + e, instead of switching focus to the email input field, the Chrome menu get activated.

How should I go around with this? How to gain focus to the input element on pressing Alt + e.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Answer

Jukka K. Korpela picture Jukka K. Korpela · Jul 30, 2012

The implementation of accesskey attributes is browser-dependent, see some of the variation.

It also interferes with the built-in accesskey assignments that browsers or assistive software may have. It is therefore not recommended by accessibility specialists.

On my Chrome, an element with accesskey="e" attribute gets focused on, when I use Alt-Shift-E. But I would not have known if I had not checked it.

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