Re: PSA: Accessibility in a menubar-less design

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

On 02/24/2014 09:04 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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.

Cool. Whilst we wait for others to chime in, I've opened a bug [1]
against Gtk+ in the hopes that it can be done there so app developers
get it "for free."

> 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.

I have no objections there. Related question: How much of these sorts of
things can be handled by Gtk+?

--joanie

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725141