Enabling Keyboard Accessibility on a Mac
Enabling Keyboard Accessibility on a Mac
Keyboard accessibility may NOT be enabled on your Mac, and historically has been turn off by default, though that is subject to change. Your keyboard accessibility and screen reader test results will be inaccurate if you do not enable keyboard accessibility in the following two places:
- System Preferences
- Safari Preferences
Enable System-Wide Keyboard Accessibility
The default keyboard access on a Mac is to allow users to tab only to form controls (text inputs, buttons, etc.). To tab to links and other elements, you need to enable the "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" setting in:
System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls
Enable Safari Keyboard Accessibility
Keyboard accessibility must also be enabled separately in Safari too.
Safari Preferences > Advanced > Accessibility > Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage.
