Really enjoy Werner from IT (TM) being the arbiter of whether I deserve accessibility tools, and if so, which ones.
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First and foremost, some amazing tools:
- Vimium C is a browser extension that can show quick access hints for clickable elements. Type the contained letters to click. Lots of other stuff as well. Unfortunately not always available in corporate environments.
Jwno is a tiling window manager for Windows that does the same thing for Windows in general using accessibility APIs. It's a simple executable and doesn't need admin.
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For some reason, Keyboard focus regularly goes *somewhere*. Tab and the arrow keys don't do anything, and Enter will perform a ✨ mystery action ✨ such as closing your window. Why is there no indication where I am?¿?
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So you want to use a browser with a keyboard:
- Vimium C is great, if you're allowed to install it, and if the browser deems the site "regular" enough to load it.
- The Tab key is a joke. Prepare to press it 267 times to skip past the navigation header, then it will go ✨somewhere✨. Tab focus also doesn't follow the viewport, so don't even think about using the arrow keys to scroll without dragging the tab focus along.
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Caret browsing is a joke.
- To move the viewport, you need to push your caret against the screen edge. To reverse direction, you need to traverse your entire screen again, which takes ages if you use a portrait monitor.
- Page Up/Down moves the viewport, but not the caret.
- The caret also regularly gets stuck on random shit or disappears into the void.
- To move between boxes, press Tab. It will go ✨somewhere✨.
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@sowophie hmm, is something like tridactyl maybe an option?
tldr being: you press a shortcut, and it highlights interactible elements and displays a 2 key combination for each. enter this combination, to jump focus to that element
https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/master/doc/AMO_screenshots/trishowcase.gif
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@4censord I have two laptops from different orgs at work. On one, I can use Vimium C, which is a browser plugin that does basically the same thing. Also Jwno. But on the other I keep hitting "Corporate IT says no" ...
Win-Tab is pretty neat for window switching with arrow keys. Except if you want to move to a different monitor. That's only possible by pressing Tab / Shift-Tab when the right element is focused. A search brings up Konami-Code-like key press sequences that always switch to the previous/next monitor.
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Come use enterprise-grade software, we have:
- A huge table of keyboard shortcuts that nobody can remember and that that covers 1/3 of the required functionality
- Multiple scrollable sections with no easy way to switch focus
- Huge modal dialogs, hope you enjoy pressing Tab a lot
- Keyboard focus that regularly doesn't follow the workflow and/or gets stuck in the void
- Wonky context menu semantics
- Drag and Drop
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