Kbd
Keyboard, focus, semantic, and consumer responsibilities for Kbd.
Accessibility
Accessibility contract
Semantics
- Renders as a native `<kbd>` element indicating keyboard input.
- Has no interactive behavior and receives no keyboard focus.
ARIA
- No ARIA attributes are required; the native `<kbd>` element provides sufficient semantics.
Consumer responsibilities
- Use Kbd to represent actual keyboard keys or shortcuts.
- Ensure surrounding text provides context for what the key combination does.
Not applicable
- keyboard
- Kbd is a non-interactive display element with no keyboard interactions.
- focus
- Kbd is a non-interactive display element and does not receive focus.
Review status: Draft — not yet reviewed
This contract describes what the primitive guarantees. Consuming products remain responsible for labels, layout, and workflow decisions that affect the final accessibility result.
Automated evidence
Axe scan summary
- Passes
- 1
- Violations
- 0
- Incomplete
- 0
Latest executed scan: Aug 13, 2026, 10:47 PM
Evidence IDs: axe-kbd-scan-v1
Automated checks cover only the recorded fixture and do not establish complete accessibility conformance.