282614 - Some basic keyboard commands like Space and Tab are not documented

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Scott McIntyre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Most basic keyboard commands are documented on the above URL and in the help,
like the arrow keys, Escape, and Enter.

Two that are missing:

Tab - Move to next link or control.
Space - Toggle checkbox state.

The second one in particular is not very discoverable.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Michael Hoffman]

If things like PageUp for "Go Up One Page" are listed I can see the case for Tab
and Spacebar.

Comment 2

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Reassigning, since this component is for Mozilla application suite Help.

--> mozilla.org (if you want this bug to be filed for the built-in help in
Firefox, feel free to reassign to Firefox/Help Documentation).

Comment 3

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Are those shortcuts consistent across platforms? (Mac, Linux)

Comment 4

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

I've got confirmation that they work on Linux, but have yet to get confirmation for Mac.

Comment 5

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

I got some info re: Mac behaviour. The tab button only navigates to text fields on Mac, because the preference accessibility.tabfocus is set to 1 on Mac, whereas it's set to 7 for Windows and Unix.
(See bug 140612)

As such, I think it would be best to just leave out mentioning the <Tab> button.

Comment 6

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Checking in keyboard.html;
/cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/support/firefox/keyboard.html,v  <--  keyboard.html
new revision: 1.39; previous revision: 1.38
done