Re: PSA: Accessibility in a menubar-less design

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> I just fired up Gedit and noticed the menubar is gone. I'm guessing we
> will start to see more and more apps move in this direction, so a couple
> things I would ask app developers and designers to consider:
>
> 1. There should be an intuitive, consistent, immediate way to jump to
>    the widgets that live in the header bar. I think this shortcut should
>    move to the first of the widgets. I'd like to toss out F10 for
>    consideration since that's what tends to work in menubar-possessing
>    apps. But I'm not wedded to that idea, as long as we can agree upon,
>    implement, and document that shortcut.
>
>    Related: IMHO Ctrl+Shift+Tab, which got me from the Gedit Text View
>    to the last focusable widget, is not a good candidate to address this
>    need.

F10 makes sense to me. I would also suggest that The Open button
should have a mnemonic, Alt-o. And it would be good to have
accelerators for the 'new tab' and 'save' buttons, canonical choice
would be Ctrl-T and Ctrl-S.