[Feature request]: Keyboard navigation when playing chess.

It would be nice to have an ability to play chess using only keyboard, totally mouseless.
It would be also cool if it was done using vim-like navigation -
<Semicolon> e2-e4 <Enter>, for example.

PS. I could help anyone to implement this feature (I have basic programming skills), if you explain what to do.

That sounds like a great idea :)

You should check this link out:
http://en.lichess.org/qa/50/can-i-contribute-to-lichess-i-am-a-developer

Perhaps that may help.

CA

Not sure about a keyboard, but does this site work with touch screens?

Or just turn on blind accessible mode.

Please, explain me how to turn on the blind mode.
I can google that lichess pages have the string "Acessibility: turn on the blind mode", but I cannot see the button on a page.

On any lichess page (using FireFox or Safari):
1. Open the developer tools (right click on the page > inspect element)

2. The first element in the body is a form to enable blind mode. Make it visible by removing the "hidden" tags, and removing the margin-left: -99999px;
The button to enable blind mode is now visible to sighted players without a screen reader.
3. Press "enable"
4. Play chess.

Thanks for the explanation, Clarkey.
But I still can not see the board in the blind mode.
May be it is a problem with my browser?:

Hmm... That's a shame. I remember it used to be there, but I guess it's changed. Not sure I can offer any additional help.