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Keyboard navigation

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, keyboard navigation means: Using a site with the keyboard only, moving between links, buttons and fields with Tab and activating them with Enter or Space.

In Turkish: klavyeyle gezinme, klavye erişimi

How it is used

Developers test keyboard navigation by putting the mouse aside. Key ideas are a visible focus indicator, a logical tab order, no keyboard traps and 'skip to content' links.

Example sentences

  1. Keyboard navigation breaks in the modal: Tab moves focus to the page behind it.

  2. Someone removed the focus outline, so keyboard navigation is almost impossible now.

Common collocations

  • keyboard accessible
  • tab order
  • focus indicator
  • keyboard trap
  • skip link
  • accessibilityThe practice of making websites usable by everyone, including people who are blind or deaf, have limited movement or use assistive technology.
  • semantic HTMLHTML that uses elements according to their meaning, such as nav, main, article and button, instead of generic div and span elements for everything.
  • linkClickable text or an image that takes the user to another page or place, created in HTML with the a element and its href attribute.

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