As mentioned in the “Web Accessibility Principles” of this week’s Module, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) established their Gold Standard for how to design web content. As we learned, the four guiding principles to this make out the acronym “POUR”, with the “O” standing for “Operable” and details how user interface components and navigation must be operable. This category deals with a website being keyboard accessible, navigable, giving users enough time, being aware of seizures and physical reactions, and input modalities. We learned this week about how not every user can navigate through a website using a mouse, especially those individuals with a motor impairment, which affects features such as “hover interaction”. Patagonia follows the Operability guideline on its site by making all functionality available from a keyboard interface, while still being accessible via a mouse input as well. The “tab” and “enter” buttons, among others, allow users to scroll and browse through their website without the need of a mouse. After watching the video titled “accessiBe - Motor Impaired User Review & Web Accessibility Perspective”, where Joseph, a man with quadriplegia, talks about his experiences navigating websites without proper keyboard navigation, and how he often gets frustrated and mentally exhausted with poorly designed websites, it’s refreshing to see that see Patagonia created a site where this wouldn’t be the case for someone like Joseph.

BBC uses hyperlinks in their articles, focusing on the Web Content Accessibility Guideline of Operability. Operability focuses on consider those who may have varying motor ability and are unable to use a mouse in he "traditional" way.

The article manages to do a good job of operability. The entirety of the article can be accessed with just the "up" and "down" arrow keys, and, while they are hyperlinks throughout the article, they do not require the reader to hover the cursor. The BBC have done a good job in ensuring that their articles are operable.

This website doesn't require mouse for any hover interaction, making is accessible.