425496 - Multiple identical links with the same accesskey can't be activated via keyboard

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Dan Dascalescu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4

Consider this piece of HTML:

<a href="http://yahoo.com" accesskey="A">Y_a_hoo!</a>
<a href="http://google.com" accesskey="G">_G_oogle</a>

Shift+Alt+A works as expected.
Let's add an identical link (supposedly at the bottom of the page, for usability) with the same accesskey:


<a href="http://yahoo.com" accesskey="A">Y_a_hoo!</a>
<a href="http://google.com" accesskey="G">_G_oogle</a>
<a href="http://yahoo.com" accesskey="A">Y_a_hoo!</a>

Shift+Alt+A now switches focus between the two "Yahoo" links.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiSuccessStoryOfTakeFive
2. Press the keyboard combination to activate the Edit link (e.g. Shift+Alt+E)
3. Notice that the Edit link received focus, but was not "clicked"
Actual Results:  
Focus jumps between the two "Edit" links in the page when pressing the accesskey E.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should surf to the Edit link.

With elements other than links, not activating them because they have conflicting accesskeys is a good idea. For links with identical HREF's, it is irrelevant which one gets activated.

This bug did not exist in Firefox 2.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

this is minor at worst, trivial at best.  Its an extra keypress to activate the link, and the "totally identical" case seems mostly overly-narrow.

Comment 2

[Thomas Kindler]

I can't believe it's still "UNCONFIRMED".. go, try it yourself!

For example:

  http://www.dokuwiki.org/playground:test

Try to press Shift+Alt+E to create or edit the page. This worked just fine in Firefox 2.

Comment 3

[Simon Bünzli]

Note that the links can still be activated via keyboard, just no longer with a single key combination. Treating multiple links with the same target as one might be a sensible optimization, though.

Comment 4

[Glenn Sommer]

In firefox 2.x Accessibility.accesskeycausesactivation is working as expected (activating the link - even though there's two identical accesskeys).

In firefox 3.x this is NOT working! IF Accessibility.accesskeycausesactivation is set to true, it should activate... if not - it should focus! (imo - to preserve the same behavior)

Comment 5

[Abe - QA (:Abe_LV)]

Not reproducible in windows-XP with latest Nightly and release.
Considering this, I will mark this issue as Resolved-WORKSFORME. If anyone can still reproduce it, feel free to reopen the issue and provide more information. Thanks

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Version 	48.0a1
Build ID 	 20160407030221
Update Channel 	nightly
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0