On data entry forms I very often have to click on the first text field before I can type anything (unless, like google.com the page has a piece of javascript to focus a textfield). It would slightly help to avoid repetitive strain injury to have a key to put the cursor in the first text field in the first form on the page. Repetitive pressing of the key could cycle between text fields. Tab key is too slow in general, because it also goes over links etc. It's also not desirable in general to autofocus on a textfield at the start, because then up, down, pgup, pgdown won't scroll the whole page as desired without clicking outside the textfield. So a new hotkey seems like the best solution. If this already exists, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in Help or bugzilla anywhere - hotkeys are useless unless people know about them.

We're considering making Tab go only to form elements and providing some other way to navigate between links. You would then be able to get to the first form element on a page by hitting tab some fixed number of times, hopefully once, but possibly 2 or 3 times depending on where the content area and url bar are in the tab order. See bug 66285.

Also see http://mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/mozkeyintro.html#tab.

Marking as DUPE of bug 66285 That bug describes the UI specification for keyboard access to forms and similar suggestions to those in this bug are mentioned. Reporter: If you disagree you are free to REOPEN *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66285 ***

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