357317 - Non-alphabetic "content" access keys inoperative

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 357101

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Nigel Ramsay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

With the change to access keys being activated with a SHIFT-ALT keypress, numeric and special-character access keys do not work.

For example, an anchor with a "1" access key is no longer activated when pressing SHIFT-ALT-1. Further investigation has shown that to achieve an activation on SHIFT-ALT-1, the access key must be specified as an exclamation mark "!". 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write a web page with a numeric access key. Eg: "1"
2. Visit that web page in Firefox 2.0
3. Attempt to activate the access key by pressing SHIFT-ALT-1

Actual Results:  
No activation occurs

Expected Results:  
The element with the specified access key should have been activated.

The addition of the SHIFT keypress to initiate access keys appears to be behind this fault. Any numeric activation keys are being translated into their SHIFTed equivilent. Non-alphabetic access keys are also effected by this fault. For example a forward slash is being translated into a question mark.

For example, to achieve activation of access keys 

0123456789

a developer must specify them as 

)!@#$%^&*(

NOTE: all New Zealand Government websites are required to support a number of pre-defined numeric access keys. None of these access keys are working in Firefox 2.0 at the moment. 

Further details here:
http://www.e.govt.nz/standards/web-guidelines/web-guidelines-v-2-1/chapter6.html#Heading761

Comment 1

[Nigel Ramsay]

More details available here:
http://www.abletech.co.nz/firefox-2-breaks-kiwisaver-and-other-govt-sites

Comment 2

[Simon Bünzli]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 357101 ***