Guideline 2.4 - Navigable

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Description

Provide ways to help users navigate, find content, and determine where they are.

Questions & Answers

Why do mobile apps need to be keyboard accessible?

Accessibility requirements for mobile apps say that all interactive elements need to be navigable with the keyboard. Why would someone use an external keyboard with a tablet or mobile phone?

  • external keyboard
  • keyboard navigation
  • mobile
  • tablet

How can I add keyboard only focus styling?

I would like to add focus states for interactive elements on my website, however I don't want the styling I add to apply when clicking on elements. If I just use :focus in my css I see the styles come through when clicking elements, or...

  • CSS
  • focus
  • keyboard

What does “accessibility node not exposed” mean?

I was checking to make sure an element on my page has an accessible name in Chrome's Developer Tools and under the Computed Properties section of the Accessibility panel, it says "Accessibility node note exposed. Element not interesting for accessibility." What does that mean?

  • accessibility node
  • hidden content