The HTML accesskey attribute can be used to assign a keyboard shortcut to a link or form control. The intention is to let keyboard users quickly navigate to different parts of a web page or trigger links to other pages.
Whether or not the accesskey attribute should be used at all is a debate that has been going on for years. I’m not going to go there in this article (see Providing Keyboard Shortcuts Using accesskey for a good explanation), but will instead focus on something you need to be aware of if you do use accesskey – values must be unique.
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