Moreover, these access keys are very useful for people with visual impairment. Visually impaired users often preferred to use websites through keyboards. Like any other big and good website, Facebook also provides facility of access keys. These are the key combinations that emulate mouse clicks. For example, you can go to a page just by pressing a key combination and you would not need to click your mouse. Some time ago I had written an article on how to create smileys and emoticons on FB. You may be interested in that as well. These key combinations differ from browser to browser. Therefore, I would suggest that you learn shortcuts for your favorite or default browser. Following list shows the Facebook key combinations for different browsers. The # key is to be replaced by access key that are mentioned after this list: Okay now lets have a look at the access keys:
0 – Help 1 – Home 2 – Timeline 3 – Friends 4 – Inbox 5 – Notifications 6 – Settings 7 – Activity Log 8 – About 9 – Terms m – New Message
Lets put it together and understand it by examples. If you want to open a new message box while using Firefox (Mozilla) on your Windows computer, just press SHIFT + ALT + m But if you are using MacBook, you’ll need to press CTRL + OPT + m for the same action. If you want to open your inbox in Internet Explorer, press ALT + 4 and then press ENTER key. Got it now? The idea is to press Key combination + Access key Alright, lets move forward. Keys in the following list work independently. Just press these keys to make things happen on Facebook. News Feed
j and k – Scroll between News Feed stories (click here to know why j and k are used for scrolling) p – Post a new status l – Like or unlike the selected story c – Comment on the selected story s – Share the selected story o – Open attachment of the selected story / – Search q – Search chat contacts ? – Help. Shows a box containing all these keyboard shortcuts. Very useful. Enter – Bring focus on the text box while making a post
Web Messenger
CTRL + g – Search conversations CTRL + q – Show or hide keyboard shortcuts CTRL + Delete – Archive or unarchive conversation CTRL + j – Mark as spam CTRL + c – Start a new message CTRL + i – Go to Inbox CTRL + u – Go to Other
I hope this information will be useful to you. Do let me know if you face any problem in this regard.
