Full Keyboard Access

Full Keyboard Access lets you do a lot of actions with your keyboard so you don’t have to pick up the mouse to click buttons, use menus, open applications and menus in the Dock, jump from tab to tab in dialog boxes, and more. This might be a convenience for you, or you might have trouble using a mouse and so it might be a great and necessary tool.

In the Dock, click once on this icon to open System Preferences.

Full Keyboard Access only works in applications that have been created specifically for Mac OS X—it does not work in Classic, nor does it work in applications that open in both OS 9 and OS X.

In the System Preferences ...

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