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by charrondev 2732 days ago
The keyboard navigation that is required to support the WCAG spec is greatly appreciated by me, even though I am fully sighted and don’t use a screen reader.

This was actually the easiest way to sell a management on some of the time we were spending making our latest project accessible. We had time allotted for power user workflows. If you’re implementing keyboard shortcuts there is likely something about that particular type of action in WCAG.

Of course theirs more to it than that. One of the hardest things was coming up with a good strategy for handling hover/focus/active states that didn’t look gaudy to management. The new :focus-visible selector can help where it’s supported, but getting our designed to think about these additional states when designing components helped a lot.