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The sad thing is that many sites can't even get basic keyboard support right, and that's something HTML handles quite well. Classic example is Tab ordering. W
by makecheck 15y ago
The sad thing is that many sites can't even get basic keyboard support right, and that's something HTML handles quite well.
Classic example is Tab ordering. When I hit Tab, I should reach the most prominent and useful field immediately (almost always a big fat search field). But too often, my first Tab lands me somewhere useless, and if I'm really unlucky it even scrolls me all the way to the bottom of the page to reveal a stupid field in a signup form from an ad or something. 5 or 6 Tabs later I may eventually reach the Search field that was in the top-left corner of the page.
- LancerSykera 15y agoEven better - I was recently filling out a form that tabbed in such an incomprehensible manner that I think the tab order number was used to count fields as they were added. For those of us who breeze through signup forms with Olympic speed, it's sort of like Garfield getting out of bed and stepping on to a cold floor.
- StavrosK 15y agoHN's edit form is no better. Pressing Tab after editing a comment takes you to the "help" link in Chrome.