Learned that 1 in 5 users rely on keyboard navigation alone

I read it in a web accessibility survey from WebAIM last week and it surprised me how many people skip a mouse entirely. Has anyone here changed their design workflow after finding stats like this?

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seth_nguyen2d ago

I wonder how many of that 20% just prefer a keyboard rather than actually needing it.

gavin_mason312d ago

That stat hit me the same way when I first saw it. I thought it was just power users or people with vision problems, but turns out it's way more common than I assumed. My own dad tabs through everything because his hands shake from years of manual labor. He can't hold a mouse steady anymore so it's all keyboard all the time. Changed how I think about testing my own sites for sure.