Accessible View “keyboard shortcuts” – Build using W3C ARIA and Google-AxsJAX

Last week Google has added an opt-in features called “Accessible View” to their Experimental Search, which makes it easy to navigate search results using only the keyboard. This experiment is built using the basic functionality provided by W3C ARIA and Google-AxsJAX, an evolving set of HTML DOM properties that enable adaptive technologies to work better with AJAX-style applications.

Accessible View, users can easily toggle between regular Google search results and Accessible Search results by using the 'A' and 'W' keys. Bringing it all together, we implemented keyboard shortcuts that extend what was originally pioneered by the keyboard shortcuts experiment.

Key	Behavior
j/k	next/previous result
n/p	next/previous result, scroll if necessary
enter	open current result
up/down	next/previous result
left/right	switch categories (results, ads, refinements)
a	jump to ads
A	switch to Accessible Search results
W	switch to default Google results
r	jump to related searches