Open Bug 899626 Opened 11 years ago Updated 2 years ago

accesskey shortcut clashes with change keyboard language shortcut

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Version:
23 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130725195523

Steps to reproduce:

shift + alt is used for both changing the keyboard language and as the accesskey modifier. These tasks are unrelated and causes confusion.

1. Think about using access key.
2. Press shift + alt in preparation to use accesskey.
3. Change mind, release shift + alt.


Actual results:

Keyboard language is changed.


Expected results:

Nothing.
Moreover, if a user does not know how they have changed the keyboard setting, I, and presumably the average user, has no idea how to change it back. I cannot find the setting in the preferences GUI, or even in about:config.
Component: Untriaged → Keyboard: Navigation
Product: Firefox → Core
Ahhh, I see now that alt + shift to change the keyboard language is a Windows shortcut and a Windows setting, not a Firefox shortcut and Firefox setting, hence no Firefox option. However, the shortcuts still clash.
Component: Keyboard: Navigation → User events and focus handling
Severity: normal → S3
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