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From: deborah.kaplan
Date: Nov 1, 2011 8:45AM

Jukka wrote:

> Although access key assignments are mostly bad for accessibility, they might have some uses _despite_ the accessibility problems. I'm mainly thinking of their use for specialized applications where the assignments are used to create keyboard controls for operations.

Yes, while access keys usually annoy me because they get in the
way of standard keyboard controls for the browser, the one place
I like them is in a website that I basically use as an
application, the bug tracking system jira. There, the
single-keystroke methods for opening and closing tickets, which
don't interfere with standard browser operations on either
Firefox or Opera, save me a lot of time.

-Deborah