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Re: Tab navigation for non-interactive content?

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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: Oct 27, 2016 1:40PM

You are right ... for a one-time application, lists of hot keys probably aren't worth it. Further, there are no standards for hot keys, so conflicts can happen, and unless you use something a lot, you just don't remember.

At one time frames were a problem, for screen readers, but any modern screen reader should be able to handle them. As a design mechanism, they have gone out of favor, but personally I like them for some applications. My grocery shopping site, local, used to use them, with your shopping list in a frame, and other sections in their own frames. It worked great, but of course they took them away and didn't put anything in their place. Headings is probably the best, and easiest way to navigate larger sections, you could have each section of the test as a H2 and individual pieces under each as H3's.

Dave



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