Principle 2 Operable · Guideline 2.1: Keyboard Accessible
2.1.1 Keyboard
Everything must be operable from the keyboard.
What this means in practice
The single most valuable test: put the mouse away and move through the page with Tab, Enter, Space and arrow keys. Custom menus, sliders and modals routinely fail because they are built on div instead of button.
What Wave Access contributes
Wave Access kann fremde Bedienelemente nicht nachträglich tastaturfähig machen – es meldet solche Stellen aber im Prüfbericht.
Normative wording
The binding text lives at the W3C. What you read here is our own faithful rendering – not a quotation.