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The Evolution of Access Keys
In HTML5, you can anchor them to anything. I mean, if you want to focus on a text field, you can do that as well. So yes, they're more evolved now. And the name suggests that, yes, it's done for accessibility purposes. But part of why we're talking about this today is because doing these access keys isn't always too good for accessibility anyway. They work different in different browsers. There are no standards. You have to press all these different types of combination of keys,. That often conflict with other tools that people with accessibility issues have. Like if they use its JAWS screen reader, then maybe the access key combination actually conflicts with one
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