Manual test of HTML5 accesskey using cyrillic and latin

There is a link, with accesskey="я g" (instead of a button as used in accesskey-cyrillic-latin-manual).

Expected result

For users with a cyrillic keyboard, there should be a standard key based on "я" plus modifiers that either activates or focuses the link. For users who do not have a cyrillic keyboard but do have a latin keyboard, the shortcut should be based on "g". The link will try to open a window with the Github repo for this test, so you can update the results section :)

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Value of the accessKey DOM attribute:

Likely failure modes

• In browsers that implement a tolerant version of the HTML 4 definition of accesskey, but not the HTML5 version, only a shortcut based on "я" will work.

Results

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Epiphany 3.10.3, 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 14.04 trying "g"

Chromium 45, 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 14.04 trying "g"

Internet Explorer 11, 64-bit Windows 7 trying "g"

Chrome 46, 64-bit Windows 7 trying "g"

With no cyrillic keyboard, "g" with modifiers does not work

Firefox 42, 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 14.04 trying "g"

Firefox 42, 64-bit Windows 7 trying "g"

With no cyrillic keyboard, "g" with modifiers does not work

Firefox exposes "Alt+Shift+я g" as the value of the accessKeyLabel DOM attribute

FireFox 42, Windows 7

Firefox 42, MacOS 10.10.5

Firefox exposes "Alt+Shift+я g" on Windows/Linux, "^⌥я" on Mac, as a value of the accessKeyLabel DOM attribute

Chrome 46.0.2490.86 m, Windows 7

Internet Explorer 11.0.9600.18097, Windows 7

Safari 9.01, VoiceOver on MacOS 10.10.5

Safari 9.01, MacOS 10.10.5

Vivaldi 1.0.303.52 beta, MacOS 10.10.5 (based on Chromium)

Yandex browser 15.4.2272.3909 beta, MacOS 10.10.5 (based on Chromium)

With a cyrillic keyboard set, none of these browsers enables accesskey using their standard modifiers plus "я"

Opera 12, 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 14.04

shows accesskey as "("

Only possible to activate shortcut menu via mouse

All tested user agents reflect the content of the HTML attribute in the DOM attribute accessKey

Discussion

The accesskey attribute was first defined in HTML 4, and an improved version was redefined in HTML5

The first value for accesskey is standard on cyrillic keyboards, so a browser that implements the HTML5 algorithm will use it as a shortcut. For users who do not have the key "available" but for whom the "g" key is "available", according to HTML5 there must be a shortcut based on "g".

Unfortunately the HTML 5 specification does not define what "available" means. At the very least, it should be simple for the user to generate such a key, and using the HTML5 definition which requires the user agent to assign modifiers, "available" seems to mean it does not require any modifiers to generate the base key.