359383 - Numeric access keys do not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 357101

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[David J]

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

Numeric access keys no longer work, example "alt" + "shift" + number does not produce any result associated with the access key. Alpha accesskeys continue to work. I have detailed a work around in additional information but it is not ideal (revert to old Firefox 1.5 behaviour)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a website with numeric accesskeys (most UK Governement websites e.g. http://csa.gov.uk/new/)
2. Try to use the numeric access key "alt" + "shift" + numeric accesskey e.g. 4
3. Confirm other access keys work "alt" + "shift" + alpha accesskey e.g. w

Actual Results:  
No page change occurs.

Expected Results:  
Page should change to the one indicated by the access key

There is a workaround in that you can set it back to the behaviour in Firefox 1.5 (and previous) whereby you set "ui.key.generalAccessKey" using about:config in the address bar to 18 (from its default value of "-1") this means however that you have to use "alt" + accesskey, which has its own limitations by way of potential conflicts with Firefox menus hence (I guess) the teams decision to use "alt" + "shift".
This occurs in a default install of Firefox 2

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

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