Keyboard navigation for players with blindness and low vision
I am building a WoW addon to support persons with blindness and low vision. Recently, many of my users have remarked that the CurseForge app is inaccessible because it lacks keyboard navigation.
Please add keyboard navigation for the following tasks:
Alternating between "My Addons" and "Get More Addons".
Accessing the search bar
Accessing or changing the retail/classic dropdown
Choosing an addon in the table underneath
Interacting with the context menu to fully manipulate that addon
An example of how you might do this purely with hotkeys:
Ctrl-M for My Addon
Ctrl-G for Get More Addons
Ctrl-S to enter the Search bar, and enter to leave it
Ctrl-R for WoW Retail
Ctrl-C for WoW Classic Era
Ctrl-B for WoW Burining Crusade Classic
Down/up to go to each row
Spacebar, or enter, or something else to open the context menu, triggering arrow-button navigation in the menu
If you did something like the above, then of course its beneficial to underline the first letter of each word to make the hotkey clear. Obviously this isn't for the person with blindness to see; rather, it will allow sighted people to know that the hotkey exists, so we can tell our friends about it and help them use the app.
(Originally Overwolf support ticket #110875, transcribed to the idea portal as directed.)
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Dahk Celes
- Feb 15 2022
- Future consideration
Related ideas
Hello! Yes, as others have pointed out, it would be awesome and very helpful to have a keyboard access in this app for blind players to be able to install, update apps to releases automatically and install Beta versions of addons!
As a player newly engaged in World Of Warcraft thanks to the hard work of the WowAccess and Keyboard UI addon teams, being able to navigate this addon manager that so many have recommended solely through use of the keyboard would be a great step towards full parity and being able to use the most up-to-date programs for managing my experience.
This is a great suggestion, we've shared it with our product team, thank you!
Hi, I am also maintaining another addOn for accessibility in WOW for blind and VI users. These keyboard commands would go a long way to keeping our users up-to-date with the latest release and betas. Thanks!