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From: Claire Forbes
Date: Feb 13, 2024 8:55AM

Good morning, everyone!
For product testing I have been using Excel spreadsheet checklists from HHS=
.gov (which one of you helpful folks directed me to). I'm really struggling=
working through the accessibility review of an Excel document - the check =
list has items that align with WCAG's 2.1 - Keyboard Accessible.

I have no idea how to test this as using the tab key because while "tabbing=
" in Excel, it continues to table alllll the way right, to the seemingly en=
dless empty/unused table cells. For a keyboard test, is it acceptable to us=
e the down arrow + tab to move through the content?

Thank you!
Claire