Eddie Monge Jr.

One of the first things that greatly annoyed me when I started using Mac OS X was that I could not tab in a form to a checkbox or radio button. That is a pretty glaring oversight and really kills usability for me. When I am filling out a form I rarely use the mouse to move between fields and just use tab and space to check boxes or select drop down items. Fortunately, the people at Apple realized how stupid they can be sometimes and decided to add an option to allow this. They didn’t make it standard (which would have been the obvious solution to anyone who has filled out a form) but it is easy to change.

These instructions are from MacTips.org:

First go to System Preferences
Choose Keyboard & Mouse
Under Keyboard Shortcuts there is an option to tab through all controls. Select the radio button for All Controls and you are all set.

Another way Apple thinks it knows best when they really don’t; like when they said people don’t need copy and paste on the iPhone since no one does that anyway….