Bug 40045

Summary: Shortcuts (i.e. Y or N keys) to not require Alt as well as pressing the specific key
Product: Koha Reporter: Hannah Dunne-Howrie <hdunne-howrie>
Component: CirculationAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: In Discussion --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: dcook, gmcharlt, kyle.m.hall
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Hannah Dunne-Howrie 2025-06-02 09:50:13 UTC
In our old library management system, shortcuts for pop up messages would be a single key, i.e. Y key for Yes to proceed. In Koha, you need to press the Alt key as well as the appropriate key for the operation.
Comment 1 David Cook 2025-06-03 06:18:25 UTC
(In reply to Hannah Dunne-Howrie from comment #0)
> In our old library management system, shortcuts for pop up messages would be
> a single key, i.e. Y key for Yes to proceed. In Koha, you need to press the
> Alt key as well as the appropriate key for the operation.

It's likely your old library management system had a custom implementation for keyboard shortcuts in that case.

Koha is using a standard system called "access keys". The use of "Alt" is not a requirement from Koha but rather a requirement from your browser. 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/accesskey
Comment 2 Hannah Dunne-Howrie 2025-06-03 08:01:16 UTC
Thanks David for your reply. I'll feed this back to my colleagues.