- From: David Bolter <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:41:00 -0400
- To: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>
- CC: Jon Gunderson <jongund@illinois.edu>, "Schnabel, Stefan" <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>, "Keim, Oliver" <oliver.keim@sap.com>, "Schaus, Martin" <martin.schaus@sap.com>, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@yahoo-inc.com>, "Evans, Donald" <Donald.Evans@corp.aol.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, wai-xtech@w3.org, wai-xtech-request@w3.org, "Grigoriadis, Georgios" <georgios.grigoriadis@sap.com>, Aaron M Leventhal <aleventh@us.ibm.com>
If I had to choose between "Ctrl+Tab", and "[", "]", for moving between editable cells... I think I would choose the latter. My reasoning is that the semantics I have for Ctrl+Tab are pretty far away from navigating cells... so that would be a cognitive leap for me. I also think when we are talking about this refined kind of navigation, we are talking about power users here, and so choosing less popular combinations is "OK". That said, is "Ctrl+Arrow" and option here? That would be less of a leap I think... my 2 cents, David Joseph Scheuhammer wrote: > > Here's an attempt at summarizing one of the problems, and a possible > compromise. > > Currently Tab/Shift+Tab is used to move among large chunks of the page > or web app. This is pretty much the convention in the style guide. > Arrow keys are used to navigate within widgets. > > It would be very useful to have quick navigation among editable cells > in a grid and not force users to navigate "endlessly" to them using > the arrow keys. However, if the number of editable cells is numerous, > using Tab to move among them leads to a sense of being trapped if one > wants to navigate through and outside of the grid quickly. > > Would the following work as a compromise? > > - Use Tab/Shift+Tab to move in and out of widgets, as before. > > - Use arrows to navigate within widgets, as before. > > - Use Ctrl+Tab to move within a grid quickly among editable cells. > > I'm suggesting Ctrl+Tab instead of Jon's Ctrl+Enter since it includes > "Tab" and that conjures up navigation. > > However, it's entirely possible that Ctrl+Tab may already be taken by > the OS or the browser. In that case, perhaps the square bracket keys, > ] and [, could be used to denote forward and backward motion, and be > used to navigate among editable cells. >
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