みんな、accesskeyってどうしてる? tabindexは?

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Subject: about the use of accesskey and link element

Dear Sirs.

We had an occasion to discuss the use of the accesskey attribute on a BBS named 2 channel.
We had an idea and we would like to propose it to you.
We gathered from our discussion that user agents should offer us a system of consistent
shortcut keys to navigate. At present, site owners arbitrarily set the accesskey, for example,
both Home page and Help page are assigned arbitrarily to the H key, so we users cannot get
a universal operation system and cannot learn by our experience on the accesskey. We do not think
the condition is desirable.
We hope that you producers of user agent add to your product a function which interprets
the link element and assigns it appropriate shortcut keys. The use of the link element is more common than
the use of the accesskey attribute and it is much less arbitrary. So we think the link element is
suitable for automatic allotment of shortcut keys.
It is difficult for us to realise this idea, but it is possible for you. We sent the same e-mail to the following
organisations and companies: iCab company, Microsoft Corporation, The Mozilla Organization, Netscape,
The Omni Group, Opera Software and The World Wide Web Consortium. We hope you will consider
our idea favourably.

Sincerely yours
My Name
My e-mail address

P. S.
A list of predominant examples of shortcut keys in our discussion.
[T]op page
[C]ontents
inde[X]
[P]revious
[N]ext
[H]elp
[S]erch
etc...