Pressing cmd/ctrl as a way to navigate into block toolbars

[ellatrix]

This would be a bit of an experiment for accessibility. @afercia and I talked about tis a few weeks back. At the moment, in the current editor, you need to press some magic f# combination to navigate to the toolbars.

Behaviour:

• Press command on Mac or ctrl elsewhere.
• If another key is pressed during, abort.
• If the key is released without any other key pressed (so it was pressed on its own), show the toolbar and move the focus to the first item.
• From there on you can use tabbing or arrow keys to move focus between the buttons.
• If and only if the esc key is pressed, hide the toolbar and refocus the editor at the last position.
• Clicking works as normal of course.

[ellatrix]

Not that related, but I also like this a lot: http://littlebigdetails.com/post/114672131085/mailbox-holding-the-cmd-key-on-mac-displays-each

[afercia]

some magic f# combination

Ah, I was wondering how to do that :) Big plus from me for the Cmd/Ctrl idea.

[afercia]

The ARIA authoring practices suggest, as an example, some shortcuts. Most importantly, they describe the expected interaction and some options:

Expected keyboard interaction with a rich text editor
(outdated, read all for the suggested interaction)
https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-wai-aria-practices-20130307/#richtext

In the latest version, there's just a quick mention here (see the note)

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/#keyboard-interaction-11
... For example, a rich text editor may have a menubar that receives focus when
a shortcut key, e.g., alt + F10, is pressed while editing.

However, I've never got the reasoning behind that. Alt + F10 doesn't seem the most discoverable and easy to remember shortcut. I'd vote for keeping Alt + F10 for users that are used to that and introduce cmd/ctrl as a new, easier one.