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Re: Keyboard navigation using arrows only

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From: Jordan Wilson
Date: Sep 2, 2014 1:22PM

I haven't gotten to the point of getting access to their internal
development team about the why and how. Its not even just a widget, its
the whole site. It seemed so intentional I was afraid I had missed
something.

The arrow keys getting intercepted in screen readers is a great point I
hadn't thought of yet.

Hopefully I get a chance to talk to them in the near future, thanks for
your perspectives!



On 9/2/14 3:31 PM, "Mallory van Achterberg" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 06:24:18PM +0000, Jordan Wilson wrote:
>> They clearly spent a lot of time and effort ensuring the arrow
>>navigation, so I figured I'd ask the community.
>
>I gotta wonder... why?? It's like carefully making buttons out of
>spans with all the manual roles and scripting.
>
>Have you asked them what problem they were solving?
>_mallory
>>>