Re: Quick (hopefully) question about WCAG 2 glossary definition of "keyboard interface"

On 30/06/2016 11:31, Detlev Fischer wrote:
> One difference between sequential navigation via swiping and keyboard
> sequential navigation (tabbing, arrowing) is predictability. In
> several user tests we have experienced issues of focus loss or
> accidental focus jumps even with users who know the swipe gestures
> and can in other circumstances apply them correctly. Swiping
> (especially with Android / Talkback) often resets the focus to what
> happens to be at the position where the finger came down. This is
> partly due to problems of touch implementation (especially compared
> with the better implemetation under iOS/Voiceover), partly due to
> processing speed (test devices were Moto E, Galaxy Note 3, Nexus 4,
> etc, so not the latest and fastest hardware).
>
> This may still not be a general reason to keep keyboard and touch
> sequential navigation apart - just saying...

To me, that's bad/buggy user agent/AT implementation of the navigation 
mechanism. Nothing that an author can account for.

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