Keyboard Accessibility in green text overlaind on a picture of a QWERTY keyboard.

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