On 14-06-06 02:34 AM, Gilles Dubuc wrote:
I think that picking isolated websites (gmail or
medium) isn't enough to
get a sense of what the average user's expectation is. These two
particular examples aren't necessarily the best for other reasons:
Google products and Gmail in particular have always had very
engineer-minded keyboard shortcuts because engineers rule the culture at
Google. That's not necessarily the best thing for accessibility if you
don't have that culture. As for Medium, it's too new to have proven
itself as something with good accessibility. Maybe a lot of people are
getting confused by medium's interface, we wouldn't know.
Possibly, it would help to re-word the way we're understanding these 2
examples, into the abstracts that they represent:-
In line- or list-item-highlights, like email programs (Thunderbird,
etc), or file managers, or spreadsheets, or drop-down menus:
- Clicking the keyboard down-arrow will move the highlight downwards by
exactly one (1).
In full-window-highlights, like a PDF-viewer, or image-viewer, or webpage:
- Clicking the keyboard down-arrow will make the content scroll-upwards.
(by a variable amount, depending on OS, program, and user-settings.
Sometimes 1 line, sometimes 3 lines, sometimes x pixels.)
(and similar results for left/right arrow-keys)
HTH.