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From: deborah.kaplan
Date: Jan 10, 2013 9:53AM

Bevi,

I am a voice user but not a screen reader user, and Duck Duck Go
-- my goto search engine -- is the only site where I don't hate
infinite scroll. I think it's because it is so easy to turn off
certain functions on their site without breaking the overall
site. Most sites that implement infinite scroll also implement
other JavaScript features that break the site for me as a
voice/keyboard user, such as field capture of the focus, or that
horrible thing Google does where it captures every keystroke.

Duck Duck Go has this small, reasonable set of JavaScript
features that doesn't override other functionality I would want.
There is infinite scroll, and there is the ability to arrow key
down to select your result. There is nothing else which
bothers me. Moreover, you can fine-tune all of their settings
(<https://duckduckgo.com/settings>), and because of their privacy
policy, I don't mind letting them save my fine tuned settings.

-Deborah
--
Accessibility Team Co-lead
Dreamwidth Studios LLC