Barney Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

"Admittedly if you're entirely reliant on visual presentation and 
tab-browsing (what kind of a demographic is this, I wonder?), I can 
imagine some users might get infuriated at going through the header and
starting to plow around the content and extras without being able to access
that nav that's apparently 'right there'. I would start back-tabbing at this
point, but I don't know if that'd occur to most."

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Many different user groups use keyboard-only navigation. People who cannot use
a mouse would include those with conditions such as RSI, arthritis, shaking
diseases, cerebral palsy etc. Some might use a normal keyboard but many use
adaptive devices that emulate keyboards.

Then there are those of us who just find it easier to use keyboard navigation
on certain sites. I find myself doing this more nowadays especially on pages
containing forms. I encounter a lot of sites where the page sometimes jumps
when you click a link so you have to move the mouse and click it again. That
obviously doesn't happen when using keyboard navigation.

It would be great if browsers all had the kind of features you get in screen
readers such the ability to jump to the next heading, list, form etc. That
would make keyboard navigation a whole lot easier.

Steve Green
Director
Test Partners Ltd / First Accessibility
www.testpartners.co.uk
www.accessibility.co.uk




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