+ CC Scott and Evan, to maintain a good story cross-platform. Any suggestions for a keyboard model here? I'd really like to stay away from the long, complex keyboard combos, also because noone will ever discover that they are there...
- Jonas On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote: > I agree with James, ALT keys should be only used for accessibility, if we > want to be able to allow keyboard shortcuts to other toolbars, we need to > reorganize our current ones. It would be nice to have the following > combinations: > CTRL+SHIFT+T --- Main Toolbar > CTRL+SHIFT+B --- Main Bookmarks bar > CTRL+SHIFT+E --- Extension bar > > I wish we could use shorter `shortcuts`. I am working with Mr Klink trying > to improve the keyboard shortcuts and accessibility within Chrome, and > currently Chrome is disabling keyboard users accessing other tool bars, > which is a problem. > > Any suggestions is highly appreciated. > > -Mohamed > > > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:00 PM, James Su <su...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> >> >> 2009/9/26 Jacob Mandelson <ja...@mandelson.org> >> >> >>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:40:07AM -0400, Mohamed Mansour wrote: >>> > 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. >>> [...] >>> >>> Maybe we could treat them akin to menus, and have Alt-SomeLetter go move >>> the active focus to the bar? >>> Alt-T and Alt-B seem unbound, but Alt-E (and not Alt-D) opens the >>> Document >>> menu. Alt-F opens the Wrench menu. >>> >> Can we use some other key bindings rather than Alt- something? Alt is used >> for activating accesskeys and already caused conflicts between some >> accelerators. See http://crbug.com/21624. >> >> >>> -- Jacob >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
