Keyboard Navigation Cheatsheet

Many disabled users navigate the web using their keyboard alone. This cheat sheet will help you test your own website without a mouse. It is one of the simplest accessibility tests you can do.

For more on why this is important, read Hands Off The Mouse: A Guide To Building Keyboard Accessible Websites.

Action	Key(s)
Move to next element	`Tab`
Move to previous element	`Shift` and `Tab`
Activate link or button	`Enter`
Toggle checkboxes or Press buttons	`Spacebar`
Navigate menus or Radio groups	`Arrow Keys`
Close a modal or dropdown	`Esc`
Go back a page	`Alt` and `Left Arrow` (Windows) `Command` and `[` (Mac)
Jump to Address Bar	`Control` and `L` (Windows) `Command` and `L` (Mac)
Scroll down or up a page	`Page Down` or `Page Up`