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Complete the task using keyboard navigation

About 29 minutes · 7 reading + 22 practice and checks
Time includes reading, practice, and questions. Extra videos or further study are optional.
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A personal non-sensitive task card and scoped navigation test using text size, zoom, keyboard and an available screen reader, with a truthful fallback comparison when a reader is unavailable.

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What to include

  • Create a task-based access choice with available/unavailable tools and no sensitive personal data.
  • Retain baseline/adjusted settings and observed information/control access, with restoration recorded.
  • Complete and document the keyboard task or its exact observed barrier.
  • Record an actual native setup/tutorial or a clearly labeled documentation-based fallback.
  • Produce a task outcome comparison that separates actual observations, expected structure, and unavailable checks.
  • Deliver a non-sensitive repeatable access plan with actual results, alternate route, and exact verification limits.

Review and revise

Use these criteria to check your work and choose what to improve.

  • The implementation or declared simulation follows the supplied contract and retains inspectable original inputs.
  • Normal, boundary and rejected cases are recorded with expected versus observed results.
  • The changed case has a correct explanation and does not rely on hidden state.
  • The project includes source, outputs, instructions and honest tool, privacy and verification limits.
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Before you begin

The idea in everyday life

The original assistive-practice.html task is to find Morning 10:00, enter fictional nickname Nova with 2 seats, and confirm locally. Open the local HTML file in an available browser. assistive-task-card.txt supplies the record template; no account or private data is used.

The idea

Keyboard navigation must expose a logical focus sequence and allow required actions. Visible focus and movement are observed behavior, not facts inferred from a native-control label.

Follow along

Complete the task using keyboard navigation — original worked practice

Keyboard navigation must expose a logical focus sequence and allow required actions. Visible focus and movement are observed behavior, not facts inferred from a native-control label.

The original assistive-practice.html task is to find Morning 10:00, enter fictional nickname Nova with 2 seats, and confirm locally. Open the local HTML file in an available browser. assistive-task-card.txt supplies the record template; no account or private data is used.

  1. 1. Step 1

    Use Tab and Shift+Tab to inspect the practice links, fields, and Confirm button; record the visible focus sequence.

    You should see: The actual focus path is documented.

    Keyboard navigation must expose a logical focus sequence and allow required actions. Visible focus and movement are observed behavior, not facts inferred from a native-control label.

  2. 2. Step 2

    Activate the schedule link with Enter and find Morning 10:00. Return to the input fields.

    You should see: The required information is located without a mouse.

    Keyboard navigation must expose a logical focus sequence and allow required actions. Visible focus and movement are observed behavior, not facts inferred from a native-control label.

  3. 3. Step 3

    Type Nova and 2; activate Confirm with an appropriate native-button key and read the status.

    You should see: The local completion feedback appears.

    Keyboard navigation must expose a logical focus sequence and allow required actions. Visible focus and movement are observed behavior, not facts inferred from a native-control label.

  4. 4. Step 4

    Record any trap, skipped control, or unclear focus; retain the task result and key sequence.

    You should see: A keyboard-only task record.

    Keyboard navigation must expose a logical focus sequence and allow required actions. Visible focus and movement are observed behavior, not facts inferred from a native-control label.

Now change one thing

The button appears on screen but Tab never reaches it and no alternate key method is known. Is keyboard access verified?

Your work

What to finish

Complete and document the keyboard task or its exact observed barrier.

Common mistake

Watch for this

Inferring a keyboard pass from source structure without completing the actual key journey.

How can I tell I understand it?

Demonstrate the rule: Keyboard navigation must expose a logical focus sequence and allow required actions. Visible focus and movement are observed behavior, not facts inferred from a native-control label. Use the supplied variant to distinguish a changed result from a broken implementation.

Try 3 questions

Quick knowledge check

Answer all 3 questions. Get at least 2 right and the lesson completes automatically.

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1Which record demonstrates keyboard task execution?
2What is a keyboard trap in this practice?
3What should happen if the required Confirm action cannot be reached?
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www.w3.org — keyboard
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01

Relevant documented module/API behavior inspected during expansion authoring; actual execution evidence is recorded separately. No grant eligibility is established.

Access: Official page retrieved with the web reader on 2026-10-01. Documentation reading does not certify execution in every native tool or browser.

Reuse: Original local practice files, fictional data, worked examples and questions. Concepts paraphrased and linked; source exercises are not copied.

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