Please step away from the mouse

12 February 2008 - 06:54 PM by Chris

Form tab order Jeff Atwood, the man behind one of my favorite reads, Coding Horror, published an article a few days ago calling attention to one of the easiest things a web user interface (UI) developer can do, which is to make forms easily navigable using the keyboard.

Poorly designed forms — with either incorrect tab order or poor layout — are certainly in my top 10 web pet peeves. I'm also a big fan of driving with my keyboard, so anyone evangelizing this earns points in my book.

Too bad the points are not redeemable for much of anything.

[Coding Horror: Where the Heck is My Focus?]

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14 February 2008 - 02:50 PM

Harry Roberts

I totally agree. One thing I hate is unusable forms, they're not fun at the best of times so at least make them easy to use. I actually wrote an article on the topic a couple of weeks ago: csswizardry.com/.../58-bugger-styling-accessible-and-usable-web-forms

//Harry

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