Access keys (i.e., keyboard shortcuts) can be defined for common features. Something like the following: * 1 - Homepage * 2 - Search box * E - Edit * R - RecentChanges * H - History * P - Preferences * D - Discussion * S - Save the current page (when editing) * C - Cancel the current edit * V - Preview the current page Then, for example, in Firefox one could press Alt+Shift+E to edit the page. For links, this is implemented as: <a href="recentchanges/" accesskey="r">RecentChanges</a> and for forms buttons: <input type="submit" value="Submit" accesskey="s"/> --[[JasonBlevins]], March 21, 2008 18:05 EDT - - - There were also a few thoughts about access keys on the [[main_discussion_page|index/discussion]]. Now moved to here: > Would anyone else find this a valuable addition. In oddmuse and instiki (the only other > wiki engines I am currently using, the edit, home, and submit link tags have an > accesskey attribute. I find it nice not to have to resort to the mouse for those > actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts? > --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) > > > Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at > > <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html> into account. > > >> Thank you for that link. Given that the edit link is the first thing you tab to > >> in the current layout, I guess it isn't all that necessary. I have had a > >> a user complaint recently that Alt-e in oddmuse was overriding his access > >> to the browser menu. ---- The main criticism there it seems is that some browsers implement access keys in a way (via the Alt key) that allows them to override built-in keyboard shortcuts. I believe this is not a problem any longer in Firefox (which uses the Shift+Alt prefix) but I suppose it could still be a problem in other browsers. Another criticism is that most browsers do not display the access keys that are defined. The [article][] cited on the main discussion page suggests underlining the relevant mnemonic. I think it would be sufficient to just list them in the basewiki documentation somewhere. [article]: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html It's an unfortunate situation—I'd like an alternative to the rodent but there are quite a few downsides to using access keys. Tabbing isn't quite the same as a nice shortcut key. There's always Conkeror... --[[JasonBlevins]], March 22, 2008 10:35 EDT [[!tag wishlist]]