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UAAG 1.0 Requirement

Checkpoint 1.1 Full keyboard access (Priority 1 )
Provision 1 : Ensure that the user can operate, through keyboard input alone, any user agent functionality available through the user interface.

Test 1 :

Procedure

  1. Using an assistive technology that emulates the keyboard, navigate the TABINDEX order of the following hypertext links.

Run test

Test link 1 (TABINDEX "3")
Test link 2 (TABINDEX "2")
Test link 3 (TABINDEX "1")

Expected results

  1. Keyboard focus moves to associated link
  2. Focus moves from "Test link 3" to "Test link 1" following the TABINDEX order.

Source code

<div><a tabindex="3" href="../action/return.html">Test link 1</a> (TABINDEX "3")</div>
<div><a tabindex="2" href="../action/return.html">Test link 2</a> (TABINDEX "2")</div>
<div><a tabindex="1" href="../action/return.html">Test link 3</a> (TABINDEX "1")</div>

Test 2 :

Procedure

  1. Using an assistive technology that emulates the keyboard, navigate the TABINDEX order of these text input boxes.

Run test

Expected results

  1. Keyboard focus moves to associated text box
  2. Focus moves from "Test Entry Contol 1" to "Test Entry Contol 2" following the TABINDEX order.

Source code

<form action="../action/return.html" method="get" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
  <div>
    <label for="text1">Text Entry Control 1 (TABINDEX "4" on input element): </label>
    <input id="text1" type="text" tabindex="4" name="text1"></input>
  </div>
  <div>
    <label for="text2">Text Entry Control 2 (TABINDEX "5" on input element): </label>
    <input id="text2" type="text" tabindex="5" name="Text2"></input>
  </div>
</form>

References

  1. HTML 4.01 specification for for TABINDEX

About this test suite

This test is part of a test suite for the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 . This work is conducted by the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group , which is part of W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) . Please send comments on this test to w3c-wai-ua@w3.org ( public archive ).

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Last modified: $Date: 2003/04/02 23:46:27 $ by $Author: jongund $

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