Comment 4 for bug 706713

This was discussed at the recent sprint in Dallas. Here is a copy of an email that Mirco sent out about what shortcuts could possibly be used, as determined at the meeting:

Greetings everybody!

        Here's my initial brain-dump of the key-mapping that should be used for
launcher- and quicklist-navigation. I don't know about typical
a11y-principles for such things so bear with me, should I have
overlooked something obvious. This is meant as a base for the discussion
we (Alejandro, Neil, Luke, Jay, Jason, myself) need to have this
afternoon.

launcher key-mapping

      * CursorUp: move selection up
      * CursorDown: move selection down
      * CursorLeft/ESC: close a quicklist, if open
      * CursorRight: open quicklist
      * Return/Space: start selected app (or switch focus to it, if
        open)
      * ????: set keyboard-focus to launcher
      * questions (needs feedback from design-team):
              * how - apart from the showing of the tooltip - should the
                currently focused launcher-icon be represented?
              * how does the Super/Meta-key shortcut conflict with this
                a11y keyboard-navigation?

quicklist key-mapping

      * CursorUp: move selection up
      * CursorDown: move selection down
      * CursorLeft/ESC: close quicklist
      * CursortRight: open quicklist
      * Return/Space: activate selected item

        This is meant as a base for the discussion we need to have this
afternoon.

Since no keyboard shortcut was decided for getting to the launcher and focusing keyboard navigation, I think Alt F1 is appropriate, since the launcher is used to launch apps etc. If a shortcut to the dash to access apps etc is under consideration, then possibly super + a would be appropriate for that.

Luke