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Re: Advice Sought for Continuous Scrolling on Retail Websites

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From: Devarshi Pant
Date: Jan 27, 2015 9:30AM

It seems managing keyboard focus and consistently directing it in the
proximity of its target would be helpful.

Extending this discussion to scrolling in large data tables, is it
recommended to repeat header row(s) when scrolling?

-devarshi
On Jan 25, 2015 10:12 AM, "Reckless Player" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I hope this is the right place to ask my questions.
> I want to encourage the local online retailers in my country to have
> more accessible websites.
> Consequently, I would send them specific tutorials and guides for the
> needed changes to be implemented.
> However, there is one point on continuous scrolling I'm not sure about.
> After applying specific filters, in case of a large number of items
> left in the result, different websites handle the final display
> differently.
> Local Amazon and eBay sites, following the global model, break up the
> result into multiple pages.
> However, other local online retailers put the result in a single
> webpage and new items are loaded when one reaches the end of n number
> of items.
> This almost always causes a conflict with screen readers regardless of
> the underlying JavaScript code. This includes the focus jumping back
> to the top of the webpage, focus remaining at the bottom of the
> webpage, and other scenarios except the scenario when the screen
> reader stays at the top of the newly loaded items enabling seamless
> scrolling.
> The reason that these retailers load the display in a single webpage
> is likely because people don't wish to click through to multiple
> webpages. This is my theory of course because even as a screen reader
> user, I would prefer to quickly navigate a single webpage using html
> elements, rather than changing webpages.
>
> I'm not sure how clear I was in my explanation, but here are the
> questions that it all boils down to.
> 1. Is there a way of loading a large number of newer items (> 100) on
> a webpage without losing focus by a screen reader user?
> 2. If so, can anyone direct me to information related to this topic?
> 3. If not, then is the Amazon/ eBay way of breaking into multiple
> webpages the only way?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Peace
> RP
> > > >