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Re: Bypass Blocks for Keyboard users

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From: _mallory
Date: Jul 20, 2015 12:20AM

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:14:20AM -0600, Jared Smith wrote:
> Likewise. Perhaps we could gain support by not presenting it as only
> an accessibility solution. I don't have a motor disability, but would
> LOVE to have the ability to navigate through landmarks natively in my
> browser. It would be amazing to hit M to jump to the main content, S
> to search, N to cycle through navigation elements, etc.

But that's exactly why they think it should be an add-on. Look at
current add-ons: stuff a few people want because they personally
like it. That some (including me) would LOVE to be able to navigate
like we could in Presto is, to vendors, little different from those
who LOVE to surf the web while blocking ads, or having rainbow
browser chrome, or having some testing tools.

How do we convince them that this is more like ARIA, MathML etc
and belong to (growing larger all the time) cores?

_mallory