Even though I get an item right, I often find myself clicking on the ‘item info’ box, to reread the example sentence(s), and or my notes that I had previously left in the meaning/reading sections. Before the ‘update’, once I had finished reading, I could simply press [ENTER], then this would lead me to the next item to review. However with this new update, pressing [ENTER] close the 'item info’ box, thus I am forced to manually drag my mouse, or my keypad to the arrow ‘>’, and click to go to the next item.
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I am also very much interrupted in my workflow - bearing in mind my ever growing age, I am not sure my brain will be able to adapt 
My preference would be keyboard shortcuts similar to the way Bunpro offers them.
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I noticed that too, that’s really a minor nuisance
I see! And no worries at all, I just wanted to make sure I understood properly. So far the last 10 button, there is actually a hotkey you can use for it (it’s labeled as Last Session Data below).
You shouldn’t need to use your mouse for anything within the review session. With the home button however, I don’t have a solution for that right now but could you perhaps explain why you open the dashboard? That might help us think of a broader solution.
As you can see from the hotkeys I shared above, you can use F or E to have a look at the more info section without needing your mouse.
If you ever forget the hotkeys, you’ll find them by clicking on the keyboard button at the bottom of the reviews page.
Let me know if I’m missing anything.
Sometimes when I make mistakes due to mixing vocabulary I want to remind myself/find out what’s the actual meaning of my wrong answer - this type of mistake usually isn’t related to, and hence goes beyond what’s included in visually similar kanji.
And the idea is that next still is Enter then?
Could you click on the item in visually similar section instead of the homepage button? That way when you open a new page, if you press the enter button accidentally, it just opens a new page instead of closing your current session
That’s correct, the Enter key is only deactivated if you use your mouse, so if you use F or any of the other hotkeys instead, you can keep pressing Enter to move to the next item
I see… I always had used my mouse to click on the info box to look within the meaning/reading sections, then pressed the Enter key to move on to the next item. Now that I understand how it gets deactivated, I suppose I will have to get used to pressing the F key instead. Thank you for the clarification.
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Can it be added to the list of keyboard shortcuts?
WaniKani should continue overriding those defaults, then, as it always very helpfully did.
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i would just like to come in here to say this has also been happening to me as well, i would assume it:s something to do with browser’s updating or something, i use firefox, curious if everyone else who’s had this problem is also using it, i don’t use any scripts at all atm
i will probably start to use the f key instead of my mouse from now on, thanks for pointing out that it’s a keybind
I am having the same issue. I preferred the old behaviour.
I just want to point out that the reason for the change is that some people use the tab key to navigate the page. This is a general accessibility feature of most browsers. When the tab key is used to navigate the page, a blue box will generally show around the item that is focused. When you press tab again the focus moves to the next focusable item on the page. When an item is focused, pressing enter should trigger that items default behaviour, i.e. follow a link or click the button. The issue was that if you tabbed to a link and pressed enter then you would not navigate to the links url, but instead the next review item would be loaded. This also meant if you tried to save a note while only using the keyboard, the note would not save and instead the next review item would be loaded.
The unfortunate side effect is that when you click an item with the mouse then that item is focused and remains so. I guess this is so pressing tab after clicking doesn’t take the user back to the first item on the page. I am reluctant to override this behaviour as I am sure that there are people who expect it to work this way. In general it is better not to override the browsers default behaviours as it can have unintended side effects.
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Ah, ok, thanks Scott for taking the time to explain, I understand better now. So the original behaviour was just a long term bug that happened to function in a way that suited me. 
I’ve been the breaker of other people’s workflows for so long I guess it’s high time I was on the other side. 
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I pretty much stopped doing my reviews because the behavior had changed. Funny how a few additional keystrokes and mouse gestures negatively impact user experience.
I completely understand the desire to provide accessibility and not override default browser behavior however one must think that at this point not only has the horse left the corral but it is thousands of miles away. I wonder though how many people complained about being impacted by the default browser behavior being overriden vs. the the number of people who are here complaining about being impacted by the removal of the historical behavior.
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I’m sorry this change has made it more difficult for you. Rather than reaching for the mouse do the shortcut keys not work for you?
F = open the item info
E = expand and collapse all sections
SPACE = scroll the page
Many countries mandate accessibility as a legal requirement for websites. The idea here is to make the website accessible to as many people as possible.
I would say the number is much of a muchness. Allowing the enter key to work as it did was actually a bug that needed fixing as people were writing notes and the notes were not being saved when they used the enter key to activate the save button. This needed to be fixed.
I do hear your concerns though, and I am continuing to try to find a solution that would work for everyone (although that may be an impossible task).
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Never mind. Problem solved. lol. Actually just tapping F twice will open then close so this works for me. Sorry I didn’t know about this earlier and sorry if I cam off a bit demanding and snippy,
Now to take care of these 390 reviews…
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Is there really no easy way to just go from the item review to the next item then? F/E/space/tab doesn’t really fix my problem. I still have to reach for the mouse or hit tab at least ten times (in chrome) to get back to the next button. And if I hit tab→enter too early I end up refreshing the page. I can’t really explain how much this ruins the flow of reviews for me. I either end up getting irritated because I forget that enter doesn’t work anymore and the item review is popping open and closed, or I have to reach for the mouse/hit tab a bunch and exit any ‘flow’ state I manage to have achieved. It makes it really hard to motivate me to do reviews. I found that I have been just entering through my wrong answers just to keep my flow state instead of checking the item info even if I have missed the word over a dozen times. It makes it hard to clear the queue.
F and E should show the info without taking the focus away from the “next card” button, allowing you to advance with enter as usual. You shouldn’t need to touch the tab key at all. That would be what’s moving the focus.
Ah I see now. I guess my problem was I was using the mouse to click on item review, which I originally started doing to give my brain an extra couple seconds to process the information before I moved my hand back to hit enter. This seems to ‘lock’ on to the button so you either need tab or use the mouse. Having to move my hand back to the mouse was really throwing me off.
Thanks for the help! This does make reviews much easier to get through now. However, I will still say I do miss the enter button as a forward key. It did make the flow a bit more natural.
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