MacApper Tip: Enable Full Keyboard Access
Here’s a nifty tip for those new switchers and veteran Mac users alike. One of the biggest gripes with OS X is the lack of the ability to tab through dialog boxes from the keyboard. As an avid keyboard-shortcut user, I like being able to use the keyboard for as much as possible. Luckily, Apple has made it easy for us Mac users to enable this fairly simple feature.
Head over to the Keyboard & Mouse Preference Pane, and on the bottom of the Keyboard Shortcuts pane, you should see the option for “Full Keyboard Access.” Simply click on the option for “All Controls” and you should now be able to start tabbing through dialog boxes and windows. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard combination of Ctrl+F7 to enable this feature. When you see a little blue ring around any dialog options, you can tab through them to select a different option. You can use Shift+Tab to go backwards, and the Space bar to replicate the mouse click. This simple option makes it nice and quick to deal with one moderately annoying default “feature” of Mac OS X.
MacApper Tip: Enable Full Keyboard Access…
Here’s a nifty tip for those new switchers and veteran Mac users alike. One of the biggest gripes with OS X is the lack of the ability to tab through dialog boxes from the keyboard. As an avid keyboard-shortcut user, I like being able to use the keyb…
Hurray for tabbed browsing through dialog boxes again
What a great tip! I had seen these settings when I first got my MacBook Pro, but had forgotten all about them by the time I got to running accessibility tests on my pages. I was going nuts trying to figure out why tabbing just would not work!
One thing is different on my computer, though: I have to use the Enter key, not the spacebar, to emulate the mouse click. Is it just me, or is this the case for everyone using OS X?
http://www.hlcsuperstore.com/computers_input-devices_keyboards.html