Accessibility in the Flash workspace
Select panels or the Property inspector with keyboard shortcuts
To select a panel or the Property inspector (also referred to as applying focus to the panel or Property inspector), use the keyboard shortcut Control+F6 (Windows) or Command+F6 (Macintosh).
Apply focus to a panel or the Property inspector only when the panel or Property inspector is visible in the application
window. The panel can be expanded or collapsed.
When you use the keyboard shortcut to select panels, focus is applied to panels using the following criteria:
Docked panels are given focus first.
- If the Timeline is showing and docked, the Timeline is given focus the first time you press Control+F6 (Windows) or Command+F6 (Macintosh).
- If the Timeline is not showing and docked, or if you press the keyboard shortcut again, focus moves to the rightmost and highest docked panel. Pressing the keyboard shortcut repeatedly then moves the focus through the other docked panels, from right to left and from top to bottom of the workspace.
- If you move the focus through all the docked panels, or if no docked panels are showing, focus moves to the rightmost and highest floating panel. Pressing the keyboard shortcut repeatedly then moves the focus through the other floating panels, from right to left and from top to bottom of the workspace.
Use keyboard shortcuts to select or deselect, expand, or collapse panels or the Property inspector
- To move the focus through the panels currently displayed in the workspace, press Control+F6 (Windows) or Command+F6 (Macintosh). A dotted line appears around the title of the currently focused panel.
- To move the focus to the previously selected panel, press Control+Shift+F6 (Windows) or Command+Shift+F6 (Macintosh).
- To deselect a panel, press Escape, or move, dock, or undock the panel.
- To move the focus to the panel above or below the current panel in a panel group, press Up Arrow or Down Arrow.
- To hide all panels and the Property inspector, press F4. To display all panels and the Property inspector, press F4 again.
Use keyboard shortcuts to expand or collapse panels or the Property inspector
1 Press Control+F6 (Windows) or Command+F6 (Macintosh) until the panel to expand or collapse has focus. A
dotted line appears around the title of the currently focused panel.
2 To expand or collapse the currently selected panel, press the Spacebar.
