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Testing accessibility with your keyboard - React.js Tutorial
From the course: React: Accessibility
Testing accessibility with your keyboard
- [Instructor] In this lesson, we'll talk about how to test websites with your keyboard. Keyboard accessibility allows for users to access and move between links, buttons, forms, and other controls using keystrokes. Because so many different kinds of people use the internet, having a site that requires mouse use, would leave out users and create a negative experience. So we'll have to step out of our own experiences, think about who is using websites. First we should know who depends on keyboard accessibility. People who depend on keyboard accessibility include, users with physical disabilities, who cannot use the mouse, users who are blind and cannot see the mouse pointer on the screen, or users with chronic conditions such as repetitive stress injuries, who should limit or avoid use of a mouse. Then we can think about people who don't necessarily depend on the features, but do benefit from them, such as users with a…
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