<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">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.<div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 1, 2024, at 4:29 PM, Curtis Chong via NFBCS <nfbcs@nfbnet.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Greetings to all:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, Google has finally made this possible. Check out the announcement at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/04/first-letters%20navigation-google-drive.html#:~:text=First%2Dletters%20navigation%20enables%20users,item%20starting%20with%20that%20letter" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: underline;">https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/04/first-letters%20navigation-google-drive.html#:~:text=First%2Dletters%20navigation%20enables%20users,item%20starting%20with%20that%20letter</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">According to the announcement:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">"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."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Curtis Chong<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; 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