Operable Techniques

Keyboard Control for Touchscreen Devices

• Ensuring keyboard control for all functionality
• Ensuring touch access control for all functionality
• Ensuring that users are not trapped in content (using touch and keyboard)
• Defining the hover, focus, selected and touch (regular, long) states (M001)
  • Use focus, hover and select states consistently and in a way that follows the respective platform conventions

Touch Target Size and Spacing

• Providing adequate touch target size / Ensuring that touch targets are large enough to touch accurately without magnification (M002)
• Provide adequate spacing between touch targets

Touchscreen Gestures

• Ensuring that touch access works with device screen reader
• Providing keyboard-triggered event handlers
• Activating elements via click event / Activating elements via the touchend event (M003)
• Providing simple gestures for common functions

Device Manipulation Gestures

• Do not rely solely on device manipulation gestures
• Allowing users to interact using device buttons (e.g. arrow keys, ok button)(M010)

Placing buttons where they are easy to access

• Place buttons where they can be easily accessed for common functions (advisory)