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Re: Keyboard Access in DHS Trusted Program Website

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Aug 25, 2020 4:27AM

On 25/08/2020 10:59, Hari Krishna wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> This is regarding Keyboard Access
> <https://training.section508testing.net/mod/book/view.php?id=1229&chapterid=2671>
> in
> DHS Trusted Tester Program. This rule says that "This Test Condition DOES
> NOT APPLY (DNA) if the page has no user-activated functionality. (This is
> not usual.)".
>
> Suppose if I have a webpage in which there is a single frame with a large
> content(plain text) and the frame width and height is fixed. So a mouse
> user can access the whole content by scrolling the frame but there is no
> option for the keyboard user.
>
> Will it be a violation of this Keyboard Access or this does not apply as
> there is no user-activated functionality on the page ?

Not an expert in Trusted Tester itself, but purely from a WCAG 2.1 point
of view, this would fail 2.1.1 if there's no way for a keyboard user to
scroll. I'd say the scrolling/need to scroll is a "user-activated
functionality". Arguably, browsers should handle this gracefully
themselves (see for instance Firefox, which automatically makes an
<iframe> - I assume you're talking about iframes here? - focusable by
default, so keyboard users can always get to the iframe itself and then
use their cursor keys etc to scroll). But as that's not the case in all
browsers, authors need to consider this themselves.

P
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