Add #accesskey property to element types [#8352]

It would be nice if the appropriate form_*() functions allowed for generation of the accesskey XHTML parameter for elements where it made sense, e.g. fieldset, input, textarea, etc.

One can kludge in an accesskey parameter in the attributes argument (probably), and by hand patch in a "span" to underline or otherwise highlight the access key, but it's all hacks to do it right now.

Comments

Comment #1

coreb CreditAttribution: coreb commented 5 December 2006 at 00:22

Version:

x.y.z

» 6.x-dev

Moving from x.y.z queue to 6.x-dev. I don't know the api well enough to know if this functionality exists or not.

Comment #2

Pasqualle

🇭🇺 Budapest

CreditAttribution: Pasqualle commented 16 September 2008 at 02:47

Version:

6.x-dev

» 7.x-dev

what is accesskey XHTML parameter?

Comment #3

Chris Johnson CreditAttribution: Chris Johnson commented 16 September 2008 at 16:27

Access keys, from Google:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/accesskeys/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xhtml2-20020805/mod-attribute-collections.html

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-access/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_keys

Comment #4

effulgentsia CreditAttribution: effulgentsia commented 23 March 2010 at 18:52

Title:	Generate accesskey parameters in form elements	» Add #accesskey property to element types
Version:	7.x-dev	» 8.x-dev
Component:	theme system	» base system
Priority:	Minor	» Normal
Issue tags:		+Usability, +Rendering, +Accessibility

I think this is a really good idea, but too late for D7. I think the D7 render system makes it possible for a contrib module to solve this (add a #accesskey property, and use #pre_render/#theme/#theme_wrappers or CSS3 to add some visible indicator for what the access key is). I'd love to see a worked out solution make it into D8 core.