An accesskey
is another of the W3's ways of muddling concerns;
when you type something into a web browser, what does it mean? Does
the browser get the keystroke or the page, or the form, and which form
are we talking about anyway... It seems the prevailing
wisdom is not to use accesskey
s as the implementations are
broken; in a nutshell, this misfeature is not compositional, a
feature shared with all the very worst XHTML ideas.
Back in the real world we're stuck between doing something "many users will be familiar with" (yeah, I remember that) and leaving things alone. I've decided to follow the BBC's ambivalent lead here.