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FSE: Unified keyboard shortcuts for sidebars #30294

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critterverse opened this issue Mar 26, 2021 · 1 comment
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FSE: Unified keyboard shortcuts for sidebars #30294

critterverse opened this issue Mar 26, 2021 · 1 comment
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[Focus] Accessibility (a11y) Changes that impact accessibility and need corresponding review (e.g. markup changes).

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As keyboard shortcuts are in the process of being implemented in the Full Site Editor as a part of #21245, it might be a good time to discuss potential keyboard shortcuts for the additional sidebars that have been added.

The sidebars that can be toggled from the top toolbar, from left to right, are:

  • Full Site Editor navigation
  • Inserter
  • List View (existing shortcut: ^⌥O)
  • Settings (existing shortcut: ⇧⌘,)
  • Global Styles

*Please comment below if I'm missing any existing sidebar shortcuts

I can imagine wanting to unify the open/closing behavior of all the sidebars through similar, easy-to-remember shortcuts. For example, each of the sidebars could be given some variation of the existing shortcut for toggling Settings or List View.

A different approach could be to make it easy to cycle through all the possible sidebar configurations via a shortcut similar to the one used for jumping to the next part of the editor: ^⌥N. Whereas the current shortcut cycles through the open sections of the editor, a new shortcut could cycle through each of the possible sidebar configurations, opening each sidebar one at a time (including an "all closed" state).

Would love to discuss which approach could best help improve usability in the FSE.

@critterverse critterverse added [a11y] Keyboard & Focus [Focus] Accessibility (a11y) Changes that impact accessibility and need corresponding review (e.g. markup changes). labels Mar 26, 2021
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Closing this issue as navigation in the site editor nows behaves differently.

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