Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein to a method for presenting a user interface comprising: receiving data from a host computer system describing a web-based user interface, wherein the data describing the web-based user interface includes information describing a hierarchical navigation tree and shortcut menu commands associated with each of the navigation elements; presenting the web-based user interface including the hierarchical navigation tree, the navigation elements, and shortcut buttons, wherein each shortcut button corresponds to and is adjacent to the one of the navigation elements; receiving a first selection from a user activating one of the shortcut buttons; displaying a shortcut menu comprising the shortcut menu commands associated with a navigation element corresponding to the selected shortcut button; receiving a second selection from the user, and transmitting a request to the host computer to perform a command.