Welcome!
This course has been created and made available free of charge in recognition of the extreme importance of Keyboard Accessibility.
This is a self-guided course, meaning you can complete it at your own pace, and in whatever sequence you choose.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this self-guided course, participants will be able to:
- Identify the keys on a QWERTY keyboard used for accessibility.
- Understand the function of the different accessibility keys
- Recognize the different types of content each accessibility key relates to
- Understand the concept of digital focus
- Identify current focus of keyboard
- Recognize limitations of raw keyboard access.
Primary Concepts:
Navigation vs Reading vs Interaction
Containers - OS, document, application, browser, page, widget, modal...
Ubiquitous Keys vs Application or Mode specific...
Designing for Keyboard access means recognizing expected behaviors and patterns and respecting them with appropriate implementation.
Last modified: Thursday, 6 April 2023, 5:12 PM