Is it good for user experience to duplicate browser/keyboard functionality?
For example: to provide these links on a web-page.
- “Back to top” link
- “Print this page” link
- “Add to Favorite” link
- “Back” button/link
- “Text zoom” button alt text http://shup.com/Shup/344995/110421205515-My-Desktop.png
Are they really create Site’s usability and accessibility?
How screen reader will behave these links, will these confuse to screen reader users?
Many people haven’t gotten into the habit of using the Home and End keys to go to the top and bottom of the page, so I don’t find
Back to Toplinks highly objectionable.Print this pagelinks can present a printer-friendly page, instead of the main page which is generally littered with banners and other stuff.Add to favorites– Not a big fan.Back button– Can be useful in workflow scenarios, but it better do exactly the same thing that the back button in my browser does. Generally the more common pattern is to provide a link, with describing text, such as “Return to Main Page.”Text Zoom Button– Love it. It allows me to tweak one site, while retaining the settings in my browser for other sites.