{"id":114,"date":"2014-05-03T14:08:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T08:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wnohang.net\/?p=114"},"modified":"2014-05-03T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T13:13:21","slug":"annoying-access-keys-web-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wnohang.net\/index.php\/2014\/05\/03\/annoying-access-keys-web-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoying access keys on web pages"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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\nHTML access keys were introduced to improve web accessibility and
\nthey still seem to serve that purpose. Wikipedia<\/a> defines them
\nas “In a web browser, an access key or accesskey allows a computer user to
\nimmediately jump to a specific part of a web page via the keyboard.”<\/em> If you
\nview hover over the link, it should show up in tooltip; for a wikipedia page,
\nfor instance, the ‘view history’ is mapped to ‘alt-shift-h’ by default. In HTML
\nsource, you can see them as accesskey attribute.<\/p>\n

Having said that, they can be really<\/strong> annoying many a time. This is true
\nprimarily when you have bound that access key to a mapping in the browser or in
\na plugin or even to a global binding (say, with xbindkeys). What makes it even
\nmore worse is that on almost every site it is impossible to disable them.
\n<\/p>\n

I use Pentadactyl<\/a> and have a couple of key bindings for
\nvarious purposes. On pages like wordpress edit page, Jira issues page or a
\nwikipedia page, these access keys make my life hard.<\/p>\n

One specific key to note, from recent experience is Ctrl-i<\/code>. I use it to invoke
\nexternal editor on forms. It is bound to italic function in wordpress text editor,
\nso Ctrl-i<\/code> fails.<\/p>\n

Now, I didn’t want to change my dactyl bindings for this. To fix this, I reused
\nanother method I normally use to remove annoying junk from web pages (or many
\na time to remove content I don’t want to see normally). Pentadactyl allows
\none to specify custom stylesheets with \"style -name...\"<\/code> command. More on that
\nhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following is an example I use for imdb: <\/script><\/p>\n

What makes this solution good is that I can easily toggle styles without
\nreloading with something akin to \"styletoggle -group style -name custom\"<\/code> where
\ncustom<\/code> is the name I gave for style. I have mapped that command to A-s<\/code>
\n(Alt-s) key.<\/p>\n

So, I think you can guess the solution probably now. I use similar CSS to hide
\nthe elements which have the accesskey attribute. If and when I want them I can
\neasily toggle them back.<\/p>\n

For my wordpress blog I have:<\/p>\n

@-moz-document domain(blog.wnohang.net) {\n   #ed_toolbar input { display: none !important; }\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
This allows me to write blog posts by invoking external editor without being
\ninterrupted by the access key. Note that, there may be an easier way to do this
\n(I am not a CSS\/HTML person!), but this is what I use since I tend to use custom
\nstylesheeets for many sites.<\/p>\n
There is another solution for this, it is to use a greasemonkey script. You can
\ncheck out an example here<\/a>. But I don’t use greasemonkey
\nand I don’t want to install another addon just for this (Firefox doesn’t scale
\nwith addons!).<\/p>\n
Photo Credit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reading Time: <\/span>  2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>HTML access keys were introduced to improve web accessibility and they still seem to serve that purpose. Wikipedia defines them as “In a web browser, an access key or accesskey allows a computer user to immediately jump to a specific part of a web page via the keyboard.” If you view hover over the link, … <\/p>\n
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