Easier way to get to favorites for keyboard/screenreader users

[nolanlawson]

For keyboard and screenreader users, it would be nice to have a faster way to get to the favorites bar. They're supposed to be easily-accessible, which they are for mouse and touch users, but keyboard/screenreader users may have to tab through a lot of content to get to the favorites.

Something like skip links but for the favorites bar ("Skip to favorites"?) could work, although I need to do some research first to see if this is a generic pattern that would make sense for an emoji picker component.

[swissspidy]

Could you just use arrow keys to go through individual emoji lists, and tab only for navigating between tablist / tabpanel / favorites?

[nolanlawson]

I could, but then it's a somewhat non-standard control, so I would need to explain it with aria descriptions (which also wouldn't help for sighted keyboard users...). It seems tricky to solve that way. Although that is what I currently do when searching (you can press up/down, the idea is that it mimics what a bog-standard combobox dropdown does).