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Visual Design Recommendations

Checkpoint 1.25 - Mobile-PDA

Everything is keyboard traversable

WCAG 1.0 Priority 3

WCAG Guideline 9. Design for device-independence.

A mouse is a common input device for web-based browsers, however they are not usable on mobile devices. Device input on mobile phones is limited to clicking on hyperlinks, using form input fields and entering text on the keyboard.

Requirement

Everything is keyboard traversable

Recommendation

Consideration should be given to the mode of input used by the user when designing the page.

Checking Tool

Test all functionality and navigation on the page using the keyboard. View the source code of the page and check that device-dependent event handlers, such as onmousedown, onmouseup, and onclick, are not used on any elements.

Information Source

The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site  (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-tab-order)

 

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