[NFBCS] Updated keyboard shortcuts and first-letters navigation now available on Google Drive

[Tony Malykh]

If you use NVDA you can try my GoogleDocs add-on. It simplifies Google 
Docs keystrokes. For example to jump to the next table you'd need to 
just press T - consistent with jump to table command everywhere else.

HTH

--Tony


On 5/1/2024 2:46 PM, Amanda Lacy via NFBCS wrote:
> Oh thank God. Now if only they could make keyboard navigation in 
> general easier. For example, I can't navigate a table in a Google Doc, 
> because the multi-key, multi-press keystrokes are too complex to hold 
> in working memory while I'm also thinking about the table.
>
>> On May 1, 2024, at 4:29 PM, Curtis Chong via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings to all:
>> Starting today, May 1, 2024, first-letter navigation has been 
>> released by Google for widespread use by the public. First-letter 
>> navigation is something for which some of us in Colorado have been 
>> pushing for almost six years now. We were repeatedly told by folks at 
>> Google that this was simply not possible.
>> Well, Google has finally made this possible. Check out the 
>> announcement 
>> athttps://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/04/first-letters%20navigation-google-drive.html#:~:text=First%2Dletters%20navigation%20enables%20users,item%20starting%20with%20that%20letter.
>> According to the announcement:
>> "Starting today, you can begin opting into the new shortcuts 
>> immediately through a banner notification in Drive or by going to 
>> Drive > Settings > Keyboard shortcuts > Update now. On August 1, 
>> 2024, Drive keyboard shortcuts will be automatically updated to 
>> first-letters navigation for all users. Once shortcuts are updated, 
>> you will also be able to see shortcuts where applicable in menus and 
>> on hover in toolbars in Drive."
>> Anyone who has become accustomed to the traditional Google Drive 
>> keyboard commands is advised that many commands have changed to make 
>> way for first-letter navigation. Honestly, I do not know any other 
>> way Google could have pulled this off.
>> Kudos to the folks in the Colorado Governor's Office of Information 
>> Technology for continuing to press for this for more than six years 
>> despite Google's claim that this simply could not be done.
>> Kind regards,
>> Curtis Chong
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