Very interesting. Thanks a lot for this.

Do we know what the browser support for this is (should we keep all the current fallbacks?)

(In reply to comment #1)

Very interesting. Thanks a lot for this.

I found this property more or less by accident when inspecting the DOM using Firebug.

Do we know what the browser support for this is (should we keep all the current
fallbacks?)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/HTMLElement#Browser_compatibility only lists Firefox 8+. As I wrote, IE 9 doesn't support it. I didn't test other browsers. So the fallbacks have to be kept.

This could be a little annoying to implement (Firefox and friends, still the only browsers supporting it, seem to use a different format than MediaWiki – Alt+Shift+X instead of alt-shift-x) and not really worth it (because, again, no other browsers support this).

But if anybody feels like doing it, go ahead :)

Spec draft:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/editing.html#dom-accesskeylabel

Gecko (implemented):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583533

WebKit (open bug):

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72715

Change 125426 had a related patch set uploaded by Umherirrender:
Add jquery.accessKeyLabel javascript module

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/125426

Change 125426 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add jquery.accessKeyLabel javascript module

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/125426