Comment by karthink
8 days ago
I'm curious to know if this is what lproven meant in their comment above. Alt + a-z to access menu items is available in every OS and all "native" apps, but you can't "drive the OS and all apps" this way.
For example, I would like to set options that are a few menus/button clicks deep in the Windows control panel (either the "classic" or new variant) using keyboard shortcuts/navigation. Or navigate the Windows registry editor. I'm not aware of a way to do this.
None of that is correct.
No, it's not in all OSes. I wish it were.
No, it's not in all native apps. KDE reinvents its own set of keystrokes, for instance, and half the KDE apps have no menu bars any more... And there's no global way to force them either.
Yes, the control panel and RegEdit are totally keyboard controllable.
You can literally just unplug the mouse from a Windows desktop and it remains totally 100% operable.
Some apps may not, because the developers didn't do their jobs right, but the OS is.
How else could blind people use PCs?