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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Jan 29, 2015 12:05PM

There is also the HeadingsMap plugin for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/headingsmap/
(Similar available for Google Chrome)

It's unclear to me if this creates a way to navigate through
headings, or just displays them in hierarchy form. (That is, is this
a tool for endd users or more of interest to devs?)

On a broader point, it's becoming a pet peeve of mine: Browsers
should really be providing more than Tab & Enter for navigating
content for keyb-only users. Opera is still the only one that has
more robust keyboard support, as I recall, though I'm now hazy on the details.

Patrick

At 10:43 AM 1/29/2015, Angela French wrote:
>I'm a sighted user and just wondering how keyboard-only users
>navigate through a page.
>Here is the page that raised the
>question: http://www.governor.wa.gov/ . Is there a way to tab into
>the sub menus that are exposed when mousing over the top nav items?
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>Also, there are blocks of content on the page and each has its own
>heading. However, if I tabbed to get to the Twitter block of
>content, how do I easily get out of it if I'm a keyboard only
>user? I wouldn't want to have to tab through every tweet to move
>onto the next block which contains the Facebook posts.
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>Are there any resources you might refer me to to learn more about
>how keyboard-only users interact with pages?
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>Thanks,
>Angela French
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