Oracle® Solaris 11 Desktop Accessibility Guide

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

Navigating Tabbed Sections

Figure 4-9  Sample Dialog with Tabbed Sections

image:Editing profile dialog from the GNOME Terminal application. Contains six tabbed sections.

Windows and dialogs are sometimes divided into logical sections that are displayed one section at a time on the window or dialog. The divisions are called tabbed sections and are identified by a tab with a text label.

The following table lists the keyboard shortcuts that you can use to navigate the tabbed sections of a window or dialog when a tab name has focus.

Keys
Function
Left arrow
Gives focus to the previous tabbed section.
Right arrow
Gives focus to the next tabbed section.
Tab orCtrl+down arrow
Gives focus to the first control on the active tabbed section.

The following table lists the keyboard shortcuts that you can use to navigate the tabbed sections of a window or dialog when a control on a tabbed section has focus.

Keys
Function
Ctrl+Alt+Page Up
Gives focus to the previous tabbed section.
Ctrl+Alt+Page Down
Gives focus to the next tabbed section.
Ctrl+Tab
Gives focus to the next control outside the tabbed sections.