title: Shortcut directly to Voice Search in Chrome Browser
body: <p>I am helping someone recovering from an accident that makes it difficult for her to type and control the mouse with much precision.  I'm not familiar with scripting languages used within browsers but would like to know if the following is possible:</p>
  
  <p>A keyboard shortcut or function key is pressed that will, 1) create a new tab and open google.com in it and then,  2) Automatically "select" the microphone to start Voice Search without the user having to either select it directly or use the "Shift-CMD-." shortcut so she can start talking in the search command with no further keyboard interaction.</p>
  
  <p>The computer being used is a mac running OS X 10.8.x and the browser is Chrome.  I've searched for chrome extensions that do this but haven't been able to find any that would help. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas are much appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thank-you.</p>