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RAAMA

10.4 On each screen, are keyboard shortcuts using only one key (upper or lower case letter, punctuation, number or symbol) controllable by the user?

WCAG references
  • 2.1.4 Character key shortcuts (A)

Official methodology to test criterion 10.4

Test 1 (10.4)

iOS and Android
  1. Connect an external keyboard (and configure keyboard navigation).
  2. From the application, successively press each of the printable character keys (lowercase letters a-z, uppercase letters A-Z, numbers 0-9, all symbols such as $, *, %, ! etc. as long as they can be written on the screen).
  3. If the keyboard shortcut is associated with a single component isolated from the screen, check that it can only be activated if the keyboard focus is inside that component.
  4. Otherwise, if an action is triggered, check that there is a configuration menu in the application which allows you to
    • disable these one-touch keyboard shortcuts;
    • configure these keyboard shortcuts by adding a modifier key (Ctrl, Alt, Shift, etc.).
  5. If this is the case, the criterion is validated.