Hi all, (need UI team feedback and other keyboard guru's)
We need a more coherent story for accessing various toolbars. The current
toolbars that exist right now are:
- Toolbar
- Bookmark bar
- Extension bar
- More in the future
Currently ALT + SHIFT + T brings your focus to the toolbar, but there is no
way to get to the others. This blocks keyboard users accessing the other
bars which is kind of annoying if your a keyboard user. According to Jonas
Klink (Accessibility guru) he said that shortcut was only a temporary
solution and would like to get rid of it and replace it with something more
generic. So we need to think of a uniform access solution to all these
toolbars.
In the meantime we could "partially" solve this. We have some
toggling features (collapse, and expand) for the bookmarks bar (CTRL + B),
and the extension bar (CTRL + ALT + B). Once we expand those bars, we can
apply focus to the first item. Similar to what we do with ALT + SHIFT + T
for the toolbar, and then use the arrow keys to traverse the bar, one item
after the other. Once that is implemented, that will allow keyboard users to
access chrome "partially". There are some problems though, what would we do
if we collapse? Maybe bring back the focus to the Renderer.
I would like to hear your opinions, if you have any, regarding uniform
toolbar access solution using a keyboard. We really want to get rid of ALT +
SHIFT + T, but we need to figure out a more elegant way to access all
toolbars. I would like your opinions on our partial solution, I think that
will give opportunity for keyboard users to access their toolbars quickly.
But can we assume whenever a user presses CTRL+B they want focus to the
bookmarks bar? I could safely assume so, but how about you all?
-Mohamed
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