Bug 164212 - Introduce a shortcut to focus form controls
Summary: Introduce a shortcut to focus form controls
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Keywords: accessibility
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Blocks: Shortcuts-Accelerators
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Reported: 2024-12-06 08:08 UTC by Heiko Tietze
Modified: 2024-12-06 09:28 UTC (History)
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Description Heiko Tietze 2024-12-06 08:08:30 UTC 
(In reply to Albrecht Müller from bug 146906 comment #0)
> Consequence: No way to switch focus between document content and controls by
> keyboard alone. You have to use the mouse if you want to use keyboard
> shortcuts defined for controls.

(In reply to Innesw from bug 14906 comment #34)
> Ctrl+F6 moves the focus from the form controls to the document. There needs
> to be a way, using the keyboard, of moving the focus from the document to
> the form controls. Ctrl+F5 used to do that, before it was overridden by the
> sidebar toggle.
>  
> Some of the previous discussion was about finding an alternative keystroke
> to Ctrl+F5 for the action. My suggestion was for Ctrl+F6 to switch the focus
> in both directions. I asked if there was any reason why this could not work.
> As yet nobody has provided such a reason.
Comment 1 Michael Weghorn 2024-12-06 09:28:18 UTC 
Confirmed, see also discussion in tdf#146925