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Re: [External Sender]what to do in scenario where you have two sets of tabs in each direction?

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From: Mallory
Date: Jul 23, 2019 1:33AM

This almost seems like something like a breadcrumb would help. I selected a main category, then a sub category, and now maybe I'm in a sub-sub cat tree. Something I could ask for wherever I was to check my place.

Maybe, like drag and drop, it's feasable to offer another navigation method people can choose, something that's basically just one big tree. Pretty much every developer in a terminal does this without graphical representation and if your prompt shows your current position in the filesystem, that helps the short-term memory issues (and like exploring these with a screen reader, in a terminal you generally don't have the option of seeing all the other possibilities of the groups you've passed-- you have to navigate back up to see what other options/folders there are).

cheers,
Mallory

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Steve Green wrote:
> Even with instructions, it's difficult to form a mental model of this
> sort of design. While it's not too difficult to navigate down a branch
> of the tree, it's really difficult to navigate back up again. That's
> fine if you are only trying to do one thing and your first attempt is
> successful, but if that is not the case I expect screen reader users to
> find this design very frustrating.
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> Steve
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