Please! Standard Keyboard Shortcuts for Web Content
To their credit there are a few sites out there who have already figured this out.
But, like myself, there are a lot of users who prefer to use the keyboard as much as possible and find reaching for the mouse annoying.
UI people, please consider the following as a standard for keyboard navigation:
- j - Next Item
- k - Previous Item
- Goto Item - l - Next Page
- h - Previous Page
- / - Focus on search field
- ? - Keyboard Shortcuts Help
Tools like jquery-hotkeys make it especially easy to pull this off. Extend as necessary.
A subset of your users will love you for it! :)
PS: You may notice, that this site is guilty of not doing this, but rest assured it will be in the very first release of any custom design I do for it.
