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Re: Keyboard navigation using arrows only

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Sep 2, 2014 2:01PM

How do they notify people? People just want to go in and use the site. This
forces me to use caret mode in my browser as a keyboard user, which is
painful at times. The user will still have to use the tab key to navigate
form fields. If their script doesn't allow that, they have larger issues.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Jordan Wilson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> A question about keyboard navigation using arrow-only navigation instead
> of tabbing. Is that at all acceptable? A client site has good keyboard
> navigation if you use the arrow keys alone and they inform users that their
> site is optimized to be used that way. Unfortunately the site doesn't work
> at all with standard tabbing through content.
>
> I'm assuming that isn't acceptable, but since the arrow key navigation is
> actually quite good it seems intentional. They clearly spent a lot of time
> and effort ensuring the arrow navigation, so I figured I'd ask the
> community.
> > > >