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From: deblist@suberic.net
Date: Apr 16, 2010 10:39AM

Nancy Johnson wrote:

> What about mobility impaired keyboard users? Are there keyboard commands to help with returning to the original page?

Nancy, as has been said, there are plenty of keyboard commands to
switch between pages and to move between applications. However,
*embedded applications* in the browser are not very functional
for keyboard-only users. This is what sparked some of the earlier
discussion. From a keyboard-only perspective, you will be much
better off with one instance of your browser and one instance of
the external application, instead of an embedded application that
appears in a browser window/tab.

Though to reiterate the earlier thread, that is controlled by the
user preferences at the browser level, unless the developer
forces the download functionality as discussed earlier.

-deborah