1. Consider the Mouse
For many people, keyboard accessibility becomes an awareness exercise, as they consider the specific elements of using a keyboard in place of a mouse or trackpad.
By design, the mouse and trackpad are supposed to be so easy and intuitive to use that we never have to think about them. This seems to work well for most people – whether you credit the design of the mouse, or the tendencies of people.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, if you deconstruct the operations of our simple mouse into the multiple discreet actions of what it does, you might find that you have been taking the mouse for granted.
Simple is as Simple Does
We all understand that the mouse allows a user to interact with digital content through a single simple action, the “click”.
However, there is a lot of synchronized moving around with the mouse that we take for granted.
Determining focus is a complex combination of motor actions and visual scanning that many people perform effortlessly in combination of cognitive review and selection of content in a seamless interaction.