Audit accessibility of the devguide

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Domain
accessibility, documentation

Research direction

Begin by reviewing the devguide's relevant interactive navigation against the WAI-ARIA keyboard-interface guidance and WebAIM keyboard examples linked in the issue. Identify accessibility and keyboard-handling gaps, then document or implement the required changes and verify that assistive-technology users can operate the affected controls.

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Description

Audit our devguide for assistive tech and ARIA support.

From @hugovk:

Nice little shortcut, but I'm concerned this will interfere with keyboard handling for people using assistive tech such as screen readers.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/practices/keyboard-interface/ includes:

So, screen reader users will commonly expect that pressing the right arrow key will expand a collapsed node.

https://webaim.org/techniques/keyboard/ has examples where ←/→ keys are needed.

Originally posted by @hugovk in https://github.com/python/devguide/issues/1784#issuecomment-4275849620

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