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#2515 closed feature (invalid)
Opened March 14, 2008 04:51PM UTC
Closed July 11, 2010 06:39PM UTC
Create a shared utility for making widgets keyboard navigable.
| Reported by: | colin.clark@utoronto | Owned by: | paul |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.2.4 |
| Component: | ui | Version: | 1.2.3 |
| Keywords: | accessibility | Cc: | davidb |
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
In order to make jQuery UI widgets navigable with the keyboard, it will help to have a centralized set of utility functions that make it easy to support tab focus, arrow key navigation, and common focus/blur behaviour. This will also need to include browser normalization for key up/down/press with certain keys (enter vs. space, for example) and focus/blur bubbling.
Here's an article on Mozilla Dev Centre describing techniques for keyboard accessibility:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Key-navigable_custom_DHTML_widgets
I've written a proof-of-concept jQuery plugin that provides keyboard navigation with a simple API. Perhaps this could be used as the basis for a central jQuery UI utility?
https://source.fluidproject.org/svn/sandbox/tabindex/trunk/jquery.keyboard-a11y.js
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Change History (3)
Changed March 17, 2008 04:30PM UTC by comment:1
| component: | core → ui |
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| owner: | → paul |
Changed March 25, 2008 03:35PM UTC by comment:2
| type: | bug → feature |
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Changed July 11, 2010 06:39PM UTC by comment:3
| resolution: | → invalid |
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| status: | new → closed |
This should be filed in the UI bug tracker if still relevant.