TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Overview
You can navigate and interact with itslearning using keyboard only. All tools and components behave as expected in a standard web application, but what is expected may not always be common knowledge.
When you navigate via keyboard, there should always be a visible focus on the current element to help seeing users understand where they are. If you use a screen reader, you should hear the label or text being read aloud.
Note: itslearning does not have specialised keyboard functionality or shortcuts beyond standard web conventions. The exception is the rich text editor (CKEditor), which supports both common text-editing shortcuts and accessibility-specific shortcuts.
2 Keyboard reference
The table below summarises what to expect when using keyboard navigation. These behaviours are not specific to itslearning — they follow standard web interaction patterns.
| Key | Actions | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Tab | Navigate down the page, moving between interactive elements such as links, buttons, and form fields. | Skips blocks of plain text. |
| Shift + Tab | Navigate up the page (same as Tab, but in reverse). | |
| Enter | Activate a link, activate a button, or select an option. | Spacebar is more common for activating buttons. |
| Spacebar | Activate a button, check or uncheck a checkbox, select a radio button, expand a dropdown, scroll the page (if no interactive element is in focus), or activate drag-and-drop of items in a list without using a mouse. | Arrow keys are more common for selecting radio buttons in a group. |
| ↑↓←→ | Navigate radio button options, dropdown options, menus, tab panels, and tree menus. Increase or decrease the value of a slider. Scroll the page if no interactive element is in focus. | Arrow keys also select the option when navigating radio buttons (where only one can be selected). Some menus that look like tab panels are actually groups of links — if so, Tab and Enter are used instead. |
| Escape | Close a dialogue. | |
| Letter keys | Filter dropdown options by typing letters. | This behaviour depends on the browser. |
| Home / End | Go to the beginning or end of a slider or table. | |
| Page Up / Page Down | In some sliders, moves the slider by a larger increment than arrow keys. |
3 Keyboard shortcuts in the rich text editor
The itslearning rich text editor (CKEditor) supports common keyboard shortcuts for working with text, as well as specific shortcuts related to accessibility. For the full list of available shortcuts, see the CKEditor documentation: