Just this past Friday I had a pile of boxes I had to scan barcodes on. Two barcodes per box.
The issue was the form did nothing when you pressed enter, and required tab to get from the first field to the second (a 2nd tab would start a new row, so it was at least equipped for multiple entries).
Most barcode scanners, if you’re unfamiliar, insert a linefeed character (ASCII 0x0A) after each successful scan.
It took me an unbearably long time to read through the 250 page user guide / programming manual for our barcode scanner to figure out how to change this to tab (0x09). It required no fewer than SIX barcodes to be scanned; enter programming mode / modify suffix / 0 / 9 / validate / save, which were spread across three pages of the manual (fortunately it had links, because also >100 pages apart).
It was worth it in the end, but it would have taken 5 minutes for them to code it to allow enter to switch between fields. This workflow is the only thing this site does, it’s unreasonable to expect people wouldn’t be using a barcode scanner.
Just this past Friday I had a pile of boxes I had to scan barcodes on. Two barcodes per box.
The issue was the form did nothing when you pressed enter, and required tab to get from the first field to the second (a 2nd tab would start a new row, so it was at least equipped for multiple entries).
Most barcode scanners, if you’re unfamiliar, insert a linefeed character (ASCII 0x0A) after each successful scan.
It took me an unbearably long time to read through the 250 page user guide / programming manual for our barcode scanner to figure out how to change this to tab (0x09). It required no fewer than SIX barcodes to be scanned; enter programming mode / modify suffix / 0 / 9 / validate / save, which were spread across three pages of the manual (fortunately it had links, because also >100 pages apart).
It was worth it in the end, but it would have taken 5 minutes for them to code it to allow enter to switch between fields. This workflow is the only thing this site does, it’s unreasonable to expect people wouldn’t be using a barcode scanner.