Add keyboard shortcut to toggle between search results and recommendations

[marcellamaki]

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Current behavior

Currently, a keyboard user has to tab navigate through all of the search results before they are able to reach the recommendations. This is a very bad user experience even if technically all items are "reachable" by keyboard.

Desired behavior

There would be a significant value add with us adding a keyboard shortcut to allow the user to quickly shift back and forth between the search results and the recommendations.

Needs input from @radinamatic regarding the best approach for this in terms of how we inform the user that this option is available, but in a general sense on the technical side, it should be as straightforward as assigning a focus/refocus to a particular keyboard input.

[radinamatic]

We were talking with @marcellamaki that instead of coding in shortcuts, that always have potential for conflict with other system ones, we could offer users a way to bypass blocks and jump between search results section and recommendations section.

When we detect that the user is navigating by keyboard, we could make visible a sort of hidden (for mouse users) links Jump to recommendations and the corresponding Jump to search results?

These would be visible only if the user is using keyboard to navigate 🙂

What would also help are the Jump to top buttons at the bottom of the paginated search results page, as well as at the bottom of recommendations, which when clicked/activated would scroll the page and the focus at the top of the list.

[bjester]

closed by #5321