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by vunderba 775 days ago
You need to be more specific. Keyboard shortcuts aren't usually something people think about on websites.

But if you're releasing a desktop application, then you're better off setting up the infrastructure to support keyboard shortcuts now rather than later down the line.

And for the love of God, make them customizable (even as simple as a JSON file) otherwise you're always going to have frustration from users using unusual keyboard, setups, other countries, different IMEs etc.

You also have to think about your target demograph and the expected workflows around your product. Is your product designed to be used a few times a week, or is it something that needs to constantly be used and there's dozens of mouse clicks associated with every action?