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From: Steve Green
Date: Dec 16, 2019 12:14AM

We see exactly the same in our user testing. Our participants range from fairly proficient to extremely proficient in terms of their ability to complete tasks efficiently, but none has any significant technical knowledge. They use a variety of strategies such as in-page search, headings list or H key to navigate by headings, and a surprisingly low number use the E key to jump to textboxes. Almost no one uses any other shortcut keys. I have never seen anyone navigate to a region and very few know how to navigate in data tables.

Nevertheless, I advocate using landmarks and other semantic mark-up correctly because user's proficiency cannot improve if that is not done. Also, the semantics can be used by user agents (and particularly browser extensions) to support people with other disabilities.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd