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Navigate a grid by keyboard
I am working to make a game accessible. I am using battleship game as the basis. I can navigate by tab key but only from left to right and down. When I go away from the slide and come back, it always starts at the beginning.
I think the NVDA speech reader will allow the person to navigate with arrow keys. What can be done for the sighted person who lacks mobility so they have to use a keyboard?
I cannot find any trigger commands to allow the player to move in any direction with a keyboard only.
Any ideas?
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As I've learned accessibility in Storyline, where the Tab key highlights next is determined by the Focus Order. That will also always be a sequential order, in that users can press Tab to advance down the list of Focusable objects as well as Shift-Tab to go back up. If by accessibility you mean users could navigate an on-screen indicator around a grid using WASD or the arrow keys, that's going to require a custom solution of triggers and/or JavaScript.
The ways in which I see solving that actually overlap greatly with the first part of your post. When you say the slide starts at the beginning, what happens in that beginning? I've imagined a grid so far, and you mention battleship, but is there a movie that plays or is the player's location just resetting?
