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From: Denis Boudreau
Date: Nov 5, 2010 10:30AM

It could be, but in very specific browsers only since some of them require the user to validate the jump by pressing the enter key.

But granted, given the use of such entries, it could cause another problem. Not the main reason, but one of the many reasons why we decided to forbid their use on public websites.

/Denis



On 2010-11-05, at 11:53, "Ted" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Isn't the problem with access keys that there are always going to be
> clashes. Alt + 0, for example, is often used to jump to an accessibility
> page. But what if I'm in a form and I want to type a en-dash (Alt + 0150) or
> and em-dash (Alt + 0151) or an "é" (Alt + 0233) and so on?
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