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I was gonna criticise OP for how many times I would have to press the tab key to get to his footer navigation menu but then I actually tried to navigate his pag
by codetrotter 4y ago
I was gonna criticise OP for how many times I would have to press the tab key to get to his footer navigation menu but then I actually tried to navigate his page with just the keyboard and I have to admit it's pretty good.
If you have a lot of links mentioned in the article text then it might become more uncomfortable but OP solved that by having a link in the top of the page that will skip to navigation.
Would like to hear from screen reader users how OP's page works for them. I expect that the navigation experience is good for them too.
And in general the bottom navigation is a pretty good idea actually. Most websites I land on I land on via links from elsewhere and I am initially not interested in navigating the page. But if I read a good article on some page and I want to explore more then it is convenient that the navigation is at the bottom because I just finished reading the article, and it also avoids the awkwardness of hamburger menus that arises when the hamburger menu content is too big to fit so it either might not scroll at all, or it might scroll in a weird way.
In conclusion, OP has a valid point and I will use more footer menus and less hamburgers in the future.
- waboremo 4y ago>OP solved that by having a link in the top of the page that will skip to navigation. Just tested that, and it doesn't skip to navigation. It scrolls down, but the next tab is still the links in the content.
- FinnKuhn 4y agoand it breaks the back button by doing that :D Hamburger menus are fine for mobile devices where space is limited and for desktop devices just use a normal nav bar instead of this mess.
- codetrotter 4y ago> it breaks the back button No it doesn't. One extra step back is not "breaking the back button" when you explicitly have clicked an inline link. That is your browser working as intended.
- codetrotter 4y ago> it doesn't skip to navigation Maybe your browser is broken It works for me as it should both on mobile iOS Safari and on desktop Brave browser. (Brave is Chromium-based.) I didn't test on Firefox because although I used to use ff for many years I am currently not using it.
- chrismorgan 4y agoFirefox handles it properly. Every browser I’ve ever known always has.
- codetrotter 4y agoExactly.