Planning for keyboard navigation
The theme review team is requiring all themes to implement keyboard navigation in two months time, around the third of september 2019. Because this may be a complex task for many authors, we encourage you to start planning for and working on this as soon as possible. We want to point out that this requirement does not only include menus. All functionality should work using a keyboard only. Any action you can complete with a mouse must also be performable via keyboard. Theme authors must provide visual keyboard focus highlighting in navigation menus and for form fields, submit buttons and text links. All controls and links must be reachable using the keyboard. First, please read the requirement found here: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/accessibility/required/#keyboard-navigation As well as the background for this requirement: Techniques for WCAG 2.0 G202: Ensuring keyboard control for all functionality We would like to collect examples for the keyboard navigation, including menus.…