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TIER 1 — Large screen differentiated
Large screen differentiated apps support keyboard, mouse, and trackpad features
equivalent to those of web or desktop apps, including:
- A comprehensive set of keyboard shortcuts in addition to conventional
shortcuts such as Ctrl-C for copy and Ctrl-Z for undo
- Keyboard and mouse or trackpad combinations, such as Ctrl+click
or Ctrl+tap and Shift+click or Shift+tap,
for enhanced capabilities such as the selection of ranges of adjacent items
or multiple separated items
- Scrollbars while content is being scrolled using a mouse or trackpad
- Additional content such as fly-out menus or tooltips on mouse or trackpad
hover over UI elements
- Desktop-style menus and context menus
- UI panels in multipanel layouts that are movable and resizable using a mouse
or trackpad
- Triple clicking or tapping using a mouse or trackpad to select entire lines
or paragraphs of text
Next steps
For more information about how to optimize your app's input capabilities, see:
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Last updated 2025-02-10 UTC.
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