Andrey Petrov

Good words on Opera's access keys solution

Tuesday, 26. December 2006, 16:43:35

Firefox would be well-advised to follow Opera Software's lead on this issue, as Opera is, without a shadow of doubt, way ahead of their competitors where access keys are concerned. In Opera, pressing shift+Esc lists all access keys used on the page, and can be activated from that point using the single key alone. Opera also allows the keystroke combination to be configured by the user, making it possible to provide a single modifier key to invoke access keys, rather than the default shift+Esc.

From Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys by Gez Lemon.

First tabbing browsing interface with source code includedFirechicken?

Comments

Christian # 26. December 2006, 17:37

Thank's for the interesting source Andrey.
Once again, it's a great thing this Opera browser, and there are great people at Opera.

One thing I'd wish for the current access-key handling: let a single ESC close the list of access-keys without action (instead of Shift-ESC again).