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Testing accessibility with the keyboard

Testing accessibility with the keyboard - WordPress Tutorial

From the course: WordPress: Accessibility

Testing accessibility with the keyboard

- [Narrator] Have you ever tried using your own website while only using the keyboard? Using a website without a mouse can help spot many major accessibility errors. Automated testing doesn't always have the right tools to find accessibility errors related to the keyboard. If we do a quick run of the popular tool WAVE by webAIM on this test site, you'll see that it scores quite well in this testing. There are no errors shown. But if we test the same site using the keyboard, you'll see a very different picture. I'm using a tool that keeps track of what key I'm pressing so you can tell that I'm actually doing something here. With the expectation the keyboard focus travels to nearby items. Those tab presses should have taken me through this navigation menu but I didn't see anything, yet this site didn't show any clear errors in WAVE. Keyboard testing without a screen reader is different from testing with a screen reader. When…

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