Ability to move through a webpage using arrow keys
In computing, spatial navigation is the ability to navigate between focusable elements, such as hyperlinks and form controls, within a structured document or user interface according to the spatial location.
This method is widely used in application software like computer games.
In the past Web browsers have used tabbing navigation to change the focus within an interface, by pressing the tab key of a computer keyboard to focus on the next element (or ⇧ Shift+Tab ↹ to focus on the previous one). The order is based on that in the source document. For HTML without any style, this method usually works as the spatial location of the element is in the same order of the source document. However, with the introduction of style via presentational attributes or style sheets such as CSS, this type of navigation is being used less often. Spatial navigation uses the arrow keys (with one or more modifier key held) to navigate on the "2D plane" of the interface. For example, pressing the "up" arrow key will focus on the closest focusable element on the top (relative to the current element). In many cases, this could save many key presses.
This accessibility feature is available in a number of applications, e.g. Vivaldi web browser.[1] For Vivaldi users, this allows a faster way to "jump" to different areas in long web pages or articles without manually scrolling and scanning with their eyes. Some examples, as noted above, include the Tab ↹ key to jump to the next input field, but also the ⇧ Shift key with arrow keys (↑, ↓, →, ←) to jump to various links and text headers.
Doug Turner (Mozilla), the Minimo lead developer, has created a couple of special Mozilla Firefox builds with this feature. Eventually, this may build as a default part of Firefox.
Nightly builds of WebKit (the layout engine used by Apple Safari and Google Chrome, among others) now[2] have support for spatial navigation.
In games such navigation is represented by (for example) camera-relative movement.
In computing, spatialnavigation is the ability to navigate between focusable elements, such as hyperlinks and form controls, within a structured document...
predominantly task-dependent, which leads to the conclusion that spatialnavigation in everyday life requires multiple strategies with different emphasis...
spatial relations among objects or space. Visual-spatial abilities are used for everyday use from navigation, understanding or fixing equipment, understanding...
crossings. Like other spatial tasks, such as the T-maze and radial arm maze, the Morris water navigation task is supposed to measure spatial memory, movement...
inference. A cognitive map is "a mental model of objects' spatial configuration that permits navigation along optimal path between arbitrary pairs of points...
The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation. It is also the...
and spatial relations" in more than one dimension. Visuospatial skills are needed for movement, depth and distance perception, and spatialnavigation. Impaired...
support caret navigation, which provides a more natural way of document navigation similar to mouse navigation. Spatialnavigation Caret navigation "WebAIM:...
sextant, chronometer or chart... Many mechanisms of spatial cognition have been proposed for animal navigation: there is evidence for a number of them. Investigators...
A spatial reference system (SRS) or coordinate reference system (CRS) is a framework used to precisely measure locations on the surface of Earth as coordinates...
aspects of cognition and behavior, including learning, memory, and spatialnavigation in many animals. It can be recorded using various electrophysiological...
information from short-term memory to long-term memory, and in spatial memory that enables navigation. The hippocampus is located in the allocortex, with neural...
abandoned the spatial model. Apple's Finder in macOS was designed with a similar integration of spatial and navigational modes, meaning that the spatial mode did...
robotic Natural Features Navigation; and many other areas, spatial relations plays a central role. Commonly used types of spatial relations are: topological...
spatial database management and geographic information technology (GeoIT) Spatial analysis, spatial data mining and knowledge discovery, and spatial statistics...
(ATN) are recently thought to be connected in pathways serving a spatialnavigation role in reference to propagating head movements. The ATN displays...
cortex. The hippocampal formation is thought to play a role in memory, spatialnavigation and control of attention. The neural layout and pathways within the...
observed in the hippocampus, a brain region associated with memory and spatialnavigation. Specifically, the cells that exhibit this behavior are place cells...
has introduced spatialnavigation to some special Firefox builds "Adot's notblog* "firefox, cats, mars, and more": Spatialnavigation rocks". Archived...
dorsally adjacent and caudal to the posterior rhinal sulcus. It is implicated in the role of memory and spatialnavigation. Grid cells Place cells v t e...
the past, thinking about the future, and processing concepts plus spatialnavigation. The dorsal (upper) part of PCC involves involuntary awareness and...
environmental spatial ability, providing a tool for assessing individual differences in sense of direction (SOD) that may have implications for navigation, wayfinding...
introduced. It included Delta File Transfer, the Web View Server, SpatialNavigation, the Quick Search tool bar, and auto login to integrated applications...
the Earth's South Pole facing upwards and the Sun above them (in spatialnavigation terms, to their zenith) when they took the image. To the astronauts...
called the hippocampus, which relates to emotion, learning, memory and spatialnavigation. Studies have shown that red-footed tortoises may rely on an area...
Schmidt-Hieber, Christoph; Häusser, Michael (2013). "Cellular mechanisms of spatialnavigation in the medial entorhinal cortex". Nature. 16 (3): 325–331. doi:10...
space), with the purpose of navigation and orientation through that space (usually unfamiliar, or very little known). Spatial anxiety is also linked to...
difficulties with spatial tasks such as the radial arm maze and the Morris water navigation task. Movement can also be an important spatial cue. Mice use...
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