Three Cheers for Keyboard Accessibility
summary
Web pages often look polished but fail keyboard and screen‑reader users: demos hit whitehouse.gov and a Virgin America beta where focus styles are missing and interactive controls don’t receive keyboard focus. Testing uses VoiceOver, NVDA and the JAWS demo version in VirtualBox. Concrete fixes include defined CSS focus styles, skip links, handling Escape at the body level, and making a Distiller drag‑and‑drop work with arrow keys while updating an off‑screen counter and using aria-live assertive — mostly successful though VoiceOver sometimes misses live updates.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:35Whitehousegov
- 3:03Virgin America
- 7:15Dev Tools
- 11:39Distiller
- 13:05Drag and Drop
- 18:17Jaws
- 20:19Virgin America Window
- 22:59Ana assertive
- 24:49Questions
- 26:54Code
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