Thread:Project:Support desk/Modify Default Tooltip Behavior

I'm running an internal wiki that I've defaulted to the Vector Skin. I'm using Lucene search and have it generating suggestions as users type. If they click on the search box to give it focus, having the mouse over search box produces the search accesskey tooltip and it persists as they type, potentially obscuring the suggestions below.

I've searched the mediawiki.org domain all over as well as several other sites. I've tried deleting the related text on the system messages page as well as several javascript and CSS methods noted online but none appear to work any longer. I have a temporary solution in place, hard coding the search input html in the Vector.php file, but this obviously less than ideal.

Is there any simple way to disable this tool tip for one or all users on my wiki, force it to disappear once they start typing or just force it to anchor to the top of the search box instead of the bottom of the pointer? Almost all users are going to be accessing the wiki from IE8 if that makes any difference.

Current system is as follows: MediaWiki 1.19.2 PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 Timothy.russ (talk) 00:41, 1 November 2012 (UTC)