{"id":1724,"date":"2018-10-20T20:03:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T03:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpthemetestdata.wordpress.com\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2018-10-20T20:03:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T03:03:48","slug":"keyboard-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/2018\/10\/20\/keyboard-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyboard navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are many different ways to use the web besides a mouse and a pair of eyes.  Users navigate for example with a keyboard only or with their voice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the functionality, including menus, links and forms should work using a <strong>keyboard only<\/strong>. This is essential for all assistive technology to work properly. The only way to test this, at the moment, is manually. The best time to test this is during development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to keyboard test:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Tab through your pages, links and forms to do the following tests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Confirm that all links can be reached and activated via keyboard, including any in dropdown submenus.<\/li><li>Confirm that all links get a visible focus indicator (e.g., a border highlight).<\/li><li>Confirm that all <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/accessibility\/handbook\/best-practices\/markup\/the-css-class-screen-reader-text\/\">visually hidden links<\/a> (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/accessibility\/handbook\/best-practices\/markup\/skip-links\/\">skip links<\/a>) become visible when in focus.<\/li><li>Confirm that all form input fields and buttons can be accessed and used via keyboard.<\/li><li>Confirm that all interactions, buttons, and other controls can be triggered via keyboard \u2014 any action you can complete with a mouse must also be performable via keyboard.<\/li><li>Confirm that focus doesn\u2019t move in unexpected ways around the page.<\/li><li>Confirm that using shift+tab to move backwards works as well.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/accessibility\/handbook\/\">The Make WordPress Accessibility Handbook <\/a><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/accessibility\/handbook\/test-for-web-accessibility\/\">Test for web accessibility<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/techniques\/keyboard\/\">Keyboard Accessibility<\/a> by WebAIM<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/rianrietveld.com\/2016\/05\/10\/keyboard\/\">Workshop keyboard accessibility<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/themes\/handbook\/review\/accessibility\/required\/\">Theme review accessibility-ready requirements: Keyboard Navigation<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different ways to use the web besides a mouse and a pair of eyes. Users navigate for example with a keyboard only or with their voice. All the functionality, including menus, links and forms should work using a keyboard only. This is essential for all assistive technology to work properly. The only way to test this, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-codex"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}