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An organisational assertion: the organisation states that it reviewed its content, and made changes where needed, so that doing a task with the keyboard alone takes a comparable number of commands to doing it another way.
Why It Matters
Content can be technically keyboard-operable and still take five times as many keystrokes. That gap is a fatigue and pain cost for people with motor disabilities and RSI.
Other input modalities include pointing devices, voice and speech recognition, gesture, camera, and any other means of input or control.
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Track / Group:input-operation
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[Title, role, or organization] asserts that:
- A review has been conducted and changes made (when necessary) to ensure that there is minimal difference between the number of input commands required when using the keyboard interface only and the number of commands when using other input modalities.
:::note
Other input modalities include pointing devices, voice and speech recognition, gesture, camera, and any other means of input or control.
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::assertion-required
- title, role, or organization making the assertion (if different from the conformance claim)
- date of when the review was conducted
- date of assertion (if different from the date of the conformance claim)
- scope of assertion (if different from the conformance claim)
::assertion-recommended
- copy of the review implementing the use of user interface design principles that include minimizing the difference between the number of input commands required when using the keyboard interface only and the number of commands when using other input modalities
- whether training was provided for authors
- date training was provided
- number or proportion of authors who completed the training
- copy of the user interface design principles document