Requirements: Keyboard only

[alastc]

Guideline: Can all the functionality be activated by a keyboard interface?

Requirements:

• Keyboard access is enabled
• Keyboard focus is not trapped
• Bi-directional keyboard use is enabled

Links:

• Google doc

[patrickhlauke]

one aspect that WCAG 2.x struggled with (and the discussion is still ongoing) is how to define "standard" keyboard interaction. there is no spec that defines a standard to, say, activate a control. there are de-facto standards, but they're not strong enough to be referenced/enforced in the binary pass/fail 2.x model. in theory then, as long as there's "some" way to control things with a keyboard, they currently nominally pass 2.x.