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Re: Keyboard navigation using arrows only

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From: Devarshi Pant
Date: Sep 4, 2014 10:19AM

Jordan,

This is intriguing. A few questions:

1. Is it possible to skip / go to specific sections?
2. What happens on tabbing?
3. Is page scrolling possible?

-devarshi
On Sep 2, 2014 2:25 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.
> > > >