Focus order on search results page

[dbranchini]

Focus order is primarily correct but in the main content area, it's doing the following:

• Start over/Active facets
• Paging/options at the top of results
• Results
• Map
• Paging at the bottom of results
• Sidebar/Facet panel

I suggest the following (should be the same as visual layout/reading order):

• Start over/Active facets (your selections)
• Sidebar/Facet panel
• Paging/options at the top of results
• Results
• Paging at the bottom of results
• Map

[dbranchini]

See related issue for Spotlight - sul-dlss/exhibits#2466.

[jcoyne]

At least part of this "Facets before results" must be fixed in Blacklight.

[jcoyne]

@dbranchini I talked with Chris and he felt that having results before facets is important for accessibility. This was an intentional design and I believe it came out of user testing. A user will need to see the results to know if they are any good before deciding to add filters to them.

[dbranchini]

@cbeer @jcoyne , I understand what you're saying, and I had that same thought when I looked at this, but here's the guidance on keyboard navigation:

As a keyboard user navigates through the page, the order in which interactive items receive keyboard focus is important. The default keyboard navigation order must be logical and intuitive. This generally means that it follows the visual flow of the page—left to right, top to bottom. (https://webaim.org/techniques/keyboard/)

Also, I'd like to point out that SearchWorks follows the above guidance, so @cbeer, do you know when it was decided to do it differently and/or was it for EarthWorks only?

[dbranchini]

Also, it was already fixed in Argo - sul-dlss/argo#4161 - to match this pattern.

[dnoneill]

Both Argo and Searchworks are on Blacklight 7.38.0. Must have been changed in Blacklight 8.

[dbranchini]

I discussed this with @alundgard and @astridu today, and we all feel this is a valid accessibility issue and should be addressed. We also decided that it was presumptuous to assume a user would prefer to go to the results first instead of the facets.