[Sigia-l] Re: Keyboard shortcuts for web based interfaces

[Gautam Rao]

Pradyot,

Yahoo Mail has keyboard shortcuts for basic functions (check mail, compose message, access folders, search messages, access help).  These are implemented through CTRL + SHIFT keys so that they dont conflict with the more common CTRL shortcuts.  These work pretty well for me and you can get some ideas by looking at them.  But I am a regular user of this site.  Like Jon mentioned, these shortcuts make sense only in websites/web apps which users use on a frequent (maybe daily?) basis.  If you are an infrequent user, you are not likely to remember them and your purpose of having shortcuts is defeated if nobody uses them.


Gautam


Gautam Rao
Senior Usability Specialist
UserWorks, Inc.