Every-day pedestrian computer tasks should be easy to complete with the keyboard only. Mice were bad enough as a crutch for lazy users, but now it’s a crutch for lazy developers.
Let me pick on Mozilla for a second. In many of Firefox’s menus, they have alt keys. You know, an underlined letter in a word that you can select by holding the alt key and pressing that letter. In FF, many of these letters are capitalized. So now you have to press shift+alt+whatever letter. Criminally bad design.
I really think Command Line Interface and keyboard shortcuts should be more mainstream. It’s just such a powerful and efficient way to navigate your system.
Let’s add to this that keyboard, mouse, and touchpad are interfaces to the same system and so should have access to the same behaviors so you don’t need all three of them to be productive. Looking at you MacOS.
Every-day pedestrian computer tasks should be easy to complete with the keyboard only. Mice were bad enough as a crutch for lazy users, but now it’s a crutch for lazy developers.
Let me pick on Mozilla for a second. In many of Firefox’s menus, they have alt keys. You know, an underlined letter in a word that you can select by holding the alt key and pressing that letter. In FF, many of these letters are capitalized. So now you have to press shift+alt+whatever letter. Criminally bad design.
Depending on where you are, keyboard access may be legally required (for digital accessibility).
I really think Command Line Interface and keyboard shortcuts should be more mainstream. It’s just such a powerful and efficient way to navigate your system.
Let’s add to this that keyboard, mouse, and touchpad are interfaces to the same system and so should have access to the same behaviors so you don’t need all three of them to be productive. Looking at you MacOS.