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Do your wireframes or design mockups show a logical tab order for people using a keyboard, or other assistive technology, to navigate?

Steps to take

1. A user should be able to use the tab key to navigate to and activate every interactive element on a page.
2. Users should be able to tab through interactive items in a logical order, usually from left to right and top to bottom. Sometimes a logical order will be obvious to your front end team based on a simple layout. In more complicated layouts you may need to identify the tab order in your wireframes or mockups.
3. Each interactive element should have a visible focus state, work with your visual designer to make sure you’ve accounted for these.
4. Watch World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) video about keyboard compatibility (47 seconds):

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

• 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence
• 2.4.3 Focus Order
• 2.4.7 Focus Visible

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