Accessibility
World Forge is a spatial canvas editor. Pointer gestures still own placement, box-select, resize, connection drawing, and pan. Everything else — tools, inspectors, save, search, undo — is keyboard-reachable.
This page is the living contract. The repo-root a11y-audit.md tracks what is shipped versus still pointer-only.
Keyboard
Section titled “Keyboard”| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+S | Save project (reuses the last File System Access handle when the browser supports it) |
| Ctrl+K | Search overlay |
| Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V / Ctrl+D | Copy / paste / duplicate selection |
| Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z / Ctrl+Y | Undo / redo |
| Ctrl+A | Select all visible objects |
| Delete / Backspace | Delete selection |
| Escape | Clear selection, cancel an in-progress connection, close the Speed Panel |
| Arrow keys | Nudge selection one cell (Shift = 5×) |
| Enter | Open the details panel for the selection |
| P / Shift+P | Apply preset to the selected district or zone / save the current selection as a preset |
| V Z C E L S T O N I | Select, Zone, Connect, Entity, Landmark, Spawn, Tiles, Prop, Encounter, Item |
Tool keys are ignored while focus is in an INPUT, TEXTAREA, or SELECT. Modals and the search overlay swallow canvas hotkeys so Delete cannot mutate a map you cannot see.
Dialogs
Section titled “Dialogs”Export, Import, Template Manager, Save Template, and Save Kit use role="dialog", aria-modal="true", and aria-label. Focus is trapped while a dialog is open. Escape closes it. Icon-only close buttons have an accessible name.
Canvas
Section titled “Canvas”The map canvas is role="img" with aria-label="World map canvas" and tabIndex={0} so it can take keyboard focus. Spatial operations (paint, box-select, resize, connection rubber-band, pan) stay pointer-dependent by design; the object tree, search overlay, and Ctrl+A are the keyboard alternatives.
Status
Section titled “Status”- Unsaved-changes dot:
role="status"+aria-label="Unsaved changes" - Toasts:
role="status" - Theme and search toolbar buttons:
aria-label
Object tree
Section titled “Object tree”Object List rows are tabIndex={0} with Enter/Space to select. A filter input narrows by name or id.
Known gaps
Section titled “Known gaps”See a11y-audit.md. Placement, box-select, zone resize, connection drawing, canvas pan, and the Speed Panel (double-right-click) have no full keyboard equivalent yet.