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When reviewing one of my recent questions, I wanted to tab through the question to upvote one of the answers a poster provided. However, it appears that downvotes and upvotes aren't accessible through tab. Why is this?

Can we make it so that we can vote with the keyboard (using tab and spacebar)?

Sidenote:
Also just found I can't add comments via tabbing on the keyboard...

Another Sidenote:
I can't accept an answer via tabbing on the keyboard...

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    All you need to do is ask :P stackapps.com/questions/2567/official-keyboard-shortcuts
    – Lix
    Mar 22, 2012 at 12:56
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    @Lix Ironically, the official keyboard shortcuts "vote" command seems to be failing on this question (at least for me).
    – Jeremy
    Mar 22, 2012 at 12:57
  • @jer - seems to be working for me
    – Lix
    Mar 22, 2012 at 13:01
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    @JeremyBanks It works for me fine as well ^_^
    – Naftali
    Mar 22, 2012 at 13:03
  • @Lix - wow - I love the official-keyboard-shortcuts! That does everything I need to through the keyboard. Should I delete this post or do you think it's worth getting the voting and comments to be "tab-able"?
    – Zack Macomber
    Mar 22, 2012 at 13:12
  • @JeremyBanks: Doesn't work for me either. I'm running Google Chrome, you too?
    – Tamara Wijsman
    Mar 22, 2012 at 13:14
  • @TomWijsman - I just installed the "version with update check" in Chrome and it's working for me
    – Zack Macomber
    Mar 22, 2012 at 13:18
  • @Zac - Well... it does already exist... But you might be able to squeeze a few more upvotes ;)
    – Lix
    Mar 22, 2012 at 13:21
  • @ZackMacomber: Ah, that one wanted to install a new one on every visit, probably a bug with Tampermonkey. Will update it soon, there was a probably related to blocking the historic votes...
    – Tamara Wijsman
    Mar 22, 2012 at 13:27
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    I know this is really a year old, but I want to comment that people who need to access sites with keyboard control only, shouldn't be forced to learn 'official keyboard shortcuts' - nice as they are. Websites should be made to be accessible using standard techniques as much as possible.
    – iandotkelly
    Jan 23, 2013 at 21:01
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    @Tsundoku You may want to consider turning on keyboard shortcuts.
    – Spevacus
    Nov 8, 2021 at 21:21
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    @Spevacus That feature is much too obscure to be of any use to anyone, except people who visit SE every day.
    – Tsundoku
    Nov 8, 2021 at 21:23

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This is mostly implemented. You can use Tab+Enter to vote on (or accept) posts, but Tab+Spacebar does not work (even though it should because that's a <button>; it even flickers). Still, it's good enough now that even people who are completely blind can (and do!) use the site.

You don't need to change any settings for that, but there is an additional option for dedicated keyboard shortcuts.

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  • What do you know...9 years later and now able to upvote with the keyboard...cool...
    – Zack Macomber
    Nov 8, 2021 at 23:17

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