8/5/2023 0 Comments Mouseless miceI visited four holiday booking sites and was only able to use one without a mouse. There was an advert playing in the bottom corner that I wasn’t able to tab to close. This website used a ‘lazy load’ feature, which forced me to keep tabbing and tabbing to load more content. This covered content that I was tabbing to, and there was no way to close this other than with the mouse. There was a large cookie banner which obscured a large portion of the bottom of the page. The other had no skip links, forcing the user to tab through the long menu every time. One was extremely good, offering skip links, focus states and even accessibility help. Visiting two news websites gave two completely different experiences. One had focus states right up until I got to the products, making it unusable too. It’s a very time consuming task to shop without such categorisation.Īnother website had no focus states whatsoever, so was entirely unusable. One site worked fairly well, providing skip links and focus states but when I wanted to filter the items by size/colour etc, the functionality simply didn’t work. Onto some fashion sites and issues began coming thick and fast. I wanted to filter the items by size/colour etc, (but) the functionality simply didn’t work. There were also a lot of filters to tab through before getting to the content. Over to an online auction site and the overall experience was not bad, but some pages wouldn’t allow me to skip the content - so it became time consuming and frustrating to get to the main content. The third provided no way of showing the sub menu items and had no skip links, resulting in a limited, long winded experience. I moved onto a second retailer, which provided a great keyboard experience, but had issues in the form of information tooltips that only worked on mouseover. It was a little inconsistent and confusing - but overall this would be my most positive experience of the entire exercise. On some, the filter sidebar was the first tabbed item, and on others it was the skip link and menu items. There were some slight discrepancies between pages. It would have made much more sense to be scrolled up to the basket icon or for the basket to be visible at all times. There was no clear indication that they’d been added a loading icon simply appeared and then disappeared. There was the option to “skip to main content”, which improved the speed and overall ease of use when visiting multiple pages.īrowsing wasn’t the problem, this came when adding items to the basket. I was able to clearly tab through the menu items, along with most of the content. I unplugged the mouse and headed over to a large online retailer and, to be fair, the overall experience was pretty good. If your experience is anything like mine, the results will be mixed at best, and that’s just not good enough! The challenge? Use just the keyboard (tab/shift tab, arrow keys, enter and spacebar) to navigate and interact with websites and applications.īelieve me, every time it’s an eye opening experience. So, when asked to do ‘Mouseless Monday’ (including no touch pads and the like) ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on Thursday, it was a no brainer. READ Accessibility: Like security, it's something we all own.Ī big part of accessible design is putting yourself fully in the shoes of the people you’re designing for. Rob Newth, UX Front-end Developer, Jadu Creative, unplugs his mouse, heads online and documents his experience using just a keyboard, in the lead up to Global Accessibility Awareness Day.Īccessibility is taken very seriously here at Jadu and Jadu Creative and we routinely stress its importance to those we work with.
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