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Can You Use Your Website Without a Mouse?
Here is a 60 second test that will tell you a lot about your website. Open it on a computer, put your mouse aside, and try to use the whole thing with just the Tab key to move and Enter to click. Tab through your menu, your buttons, your contact form. Can you do everything without touching the mouse?
A lot of people have to. Someone with a tremor, limited hand movement, or certain vision conditions navigates the web entirely by keyboard. So do people using screen readers. If your site only works with a mouse, you are shutting them out, and you will never see them leave.
Here is what to look for during that test.
1. Can you see where you are?
As you Tab, a visible outline or highlight should move from item to item so you always know what is selected. If that highlight is invisible, a keyboard user is lost. This is called a focus indicator, and many themes hide it to look clean. It needs to be on.
2. Can you reach everything?
Every link, button, and form field should be reachable by Tab. Watch out for menus that only open on hover, sliders, and pop-ups. If you can see it but cannot Tab to it, it is broken for keyboard users.
3. Does the order make sense?
Tab should move through the page in a logical order, top to bottom, the way you read. If focus jumps around randomly, it is confusing and hard to use.
4. Can you escape and close things?
If a pop-up or menu opens, you should be able to close it with the keyboard and not get trapped inside it.
Most of these come down to how your site was built, so the fix usually belongs with whoever codes it. But you do not need to be technical to find the problems. You just did the test. Note what broke, hand that list to your developer, and you have turned a vague worry into a clear, fixable punch list.
Run the test on your own site today and tell us in the comments what you found. We will help you sort out what matters most.
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