This does not work great. What if you have a grid of 30 item, do you press 20 times tab to focus finally the item you want to interact with?
replyKeyboard design is much more, its also about how and where to place items, how things should move... it's a whole world. In the mouse world we have "discovered" those things and now we "just copy" other designs that we know work fine.
> What if you have a grid of 30 item, do you press 20 times tab to focus finally the item you want to interact with?
replyIf this grid a central component of the application and navigation inside it is very common, I would argue that there should be a way to quickly move around the cells. The "how" is up to the specific application and the paradigms it promotes. For example, line navigation in vim is possible with "<N>G", but such a shortcut would seem absurd in another application.
I love VIM-like TUIs, but the discoverability of of them is absolutely awful.
reply- Underlined letter: Alt-<letter> takes you to that field.
reply- Spreadsheet-like stuff: arrows, PgDn, PgUp, Home, End, … move inside of it.