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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Mar 29, 2018 1:21PM

I personally am not in favor of virtual cursor/browse mode going away. The fact that JAWS has a touch cursor mode for software and NVDA has an object navigation mode shows that being able to navigate through non-interactive items is very important. VoiceOver also allows navigation in different modes allowing you to drill down and quickly navigate among different types of elements and to non-interactive content. For example, you can navigate or swipe and then go into edit mode to interact with an input field.

Taking away the users ability to get at the granularity of that information and replacing it with custom hotkeys to move between items in my opinion has not been successful for most users. How that browser mode is built or caches or not cached may change due to necessity on platforms-- but at some level users of screen readers will still need to navigate the accessibility tree without relying solely on navigation through interactive content.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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