Be Kind to Keyboard Users, Use a Tab Index
There are many ways to navigate a website these days, especially on mobile where you can swipe, pinch, and touch. But what about the people on Desktops that use keyboards? Let’s be nice to them. One trait of seasoned computer users that I’ve seen is that they start to use their mouse less often and rely more heavily on keyboard shortcuts. When it comes to reading websites, you can scroll with your arrow keys, but what about jumping to relevant sections on a web page? You could use the PgUp and PgDown keys on your keyboard, however many people now use laptops, and those keys are buried in a Control/Function-key combination, so I doubt they get much use (I don’t have data on this, it’s merely from my own experience). ...