Where a keyboard navigation F6 for useLandmark comes from?

[takuyahara]

Until reading useLandmark I had no idea about landmark at all and found it convenient, but am curious where a keyboard navigation F6 comes from. AFAIK keybinds are not defined in ARIA APG and hitting F6 in ARIA Landmarks Example results nothing (I use Brave in macOS).

[reidbarber]

This is from @majornista:

I think a principle reason for using F6/Shift+F6 to move between landmarks within Web pages is that it was already used to move between panels within desktop applications, like Acrobat and MS Office apps, and frames within browsers. The WAI-ARIA APG even suggests F6 as a way for moving between panes of a window splitter: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/windowsplitter/#keyboard-interaction-26.

[takuyahara]

@reidbarber Thank you for your super prompt answer. Can I see the original discussion of the quote?

[reidbarber]

This was from a previous discussion that came up internally. I can bring the case you mentioned up with the team to see if it would be a good idea to look into an additional key combination so that this covers all browsers and operating systems.

[takuyahara]

@reidbarber All clear, thank you so much 🙏. Then what do you mean "the case you mentioned up"?

[reidbarber]

I was referring to Brave MacOS not working, but now I realize you were referring to the APG example and not useLandmark, so you can ignore that.