Text instructions for keyboard shortcuts and the query reticule

[prushforth]

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[Malvoz]

By "text instructions" do you mean instructions for how to operate it (keyboard shortcuts)?

[prushforth]

Yes, maybe it needs them just as the a11y map and Google Maps do when the focus area is visible?

[Malvoz]

I've renamed this issue to include text instructions for keyboard shortcuts in general as well.

Since last year when we reported accessibility issues in Google Maps at the time of the W3C/OGC Maps for the Web workshop they've made a ton of improvements (related blog post), including a new "keyboard shortcuts" button placed next to the attribution links:

which opens up a dialog with text instructions:

A dialog like this could hold instructions for keyboard shortcuts such as pan, zoom, context menu, and the query reticule.

[prushforth]

It's great, your advocacy has had an impact on Google Maps too, by the looks of it. It would be greater if they all came over here and helped us improve our proposal. Not that you can do anything about that, mind you. I guess I'm happy to try to implement accessibility improvements to the polyfill as we can, including this one.