Adding keyboard shortcuts to .NET MAUI applications

If you are developing interactive applications, there's an old rule to remember: "don't forget about keyboard navigation". The very tool I'm writing this post with uses them heavily, and if I would have to use the mouse to access each function, I guess a lot less posts got written.

This same idea expands: casually used applications might get along without proper keyboard navigation, but the heavier use an application gets, the more important it is to have them. And of course, there's the other dimension: accessibility. Not everyone can use a mouse or touch.

Microsoft recently wrote a nice reminder about this when they talked about how to add keyboard accessibility to .NET MAUI applications.

Recommended reading!