'Creating a fully keyboard-accessible site...isn’t free; it requires a lot of work and knowledge': Microsoft is making it easier to build complex websites without a mouse

• Building websites without a mouse requires detailed knowledge and extensive coding effort
• Focusgroup from Microsoft allows developers to handle complex navigation elements without writing excessive code
• Tabindex errors often break keyboard navigation for many website users

Developing and building websites that can be fully navigated without a mouse has long required extensive technical skill and careful planning.

Developers often rely on complex JavaScript libraries or write substantial code to ensure that each interactive element responds correctly to keyboard input, increasing the amount of code to maintain and slows website load times.

But Microsoft has now introduced a new technology called focusgroup that aims to simplify this process.

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