Keyboard navigation for a faster experience

[jasiralavi]

It would be super cool to have full navigation control using keyboard. I'm surprised devs here have not prioritized this, this being a platform for devs.

• Use arrow keys to navigate My Feed. Use tab after that to srcoll though the buttons after that (already works)
• Space or Enter to open the post (works now with enter)
• Shortcuts to Bookmark, save, etc from the feed as well as from when the news item is open. For example:
  → Tab+B to Bookmark,
  → Tab+C to copy link,
  → Tab+U or T++ to Upvote,
  → Tab+D or Tab+- to Downvote,
  → Tab+K for search,
  → Tab+N for New Post,
  → Tab+M to show other menu items (the actions list),
  → Tab+T to toggle navigation focus between the feed and the left sidebar,
  → Tab+H to open Help and shortcuts cheat-sheet, etc.
• It can be Ctrl / Tab / Alt etc. But let users configure it. This is important since different OS and browsers behave different. I use firefox on Linux and have both search-box and address-box both on, so for me Ctrl+K takes my cursor focus to the browser search-box, not to the dev.daily search

[AyushmanOfficial]

How could someone use shortcuts with tab because tab does a navigation for accessibility right? Keyboard Navigation? It Can Be Somewhat like vscode does Ctrl+K & then Ctrl+O tab could be easily replaced with Alt (Windows, Linux) Option (MacOS)

I use linux too though not arch btw !

[jasiralavi]

Tab+ shortcuts are used by many webapps. See Asana for example:
https://help.asana.com/s/article/keyboard-shortcuts?language=en_US

[AyushmanOfficial]

Oh no but what about accessiblity?

[idoshamun]

Hi @jasiralavi,

Thanks for the suggestion. Let's keep the discussion here: #1017