How to enable Tab key on OS X modal dialogs

I’m a key accelerator man. I hate taking my hands out of my keyboard just to press Yes or No in a Modal Dialog. Until last week I thought there was no way to tab through the different buttons of a modal dialog.

Luckily I came across an option in System Preferences to enable the tab key navigation:

  • System Preferences
  • Keyboard
  • Full keyboard access: All Controls

One Comment to “How to enable Tab key on OS X modal dialogs”

  1. pascualin 11 February 2010 at 1:22 pm #

    Yesssss.. I’ve been hating this stupid thing for ages! Thanks Mr Beumala, you have improvem my life :)


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