WAT-C web accessibility tools consortium Web Accessibility Toolbar EN 1.1
Thursday, August 19, 2004
  Keyboard navigation conflicts
Some users have reported issues with the key combinations designated for keyboard navigation of the toolbar menus, and their particular operating system or other software settings.
" On swedish keyboards the @-sign is produced with the keystroke Alt+2. In other words, it's exactly the same as the shortcut for the resize menu in the toolbar. This means that whenever I enter an email adress in a form field on a web page, the resize menu pops up and hinders me from typing."

A quick fix is to edit the accessibility_toolbar.xml file (open in a text editor), which you will find in the folder you installed the toolbar in.

You can remove or modify the attribute 'Accesskey="2" from the resize button element:
<button type="dropdown" caption="Resize" hint="Screen Resolution" Accesskey="2" image="resize.bmp">
Note: when you use the toolbar update function the xml file is overwritten.

I am hassling JUn to include a function to disable shortcuts (soon) and am also looking at function customization feature (don't hold your breath for this one)

Thanks Henrik for bringing this issue to my attention.

 
Comments:
On german keyboards AltGR+2 is @ too.
 
Love the tool - but being able to disable the accesskeys would be a big plus - otherwise I can't test the accesskeys I'm putting in to make sites accessible!

Cheers.
 
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