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#2515 closed feature (notabug)
Opened March 14, 2008 04:51PM UTC
Closed May 07, 2009 11:44AM UTC
Create a shared utility for making widgets keyboard navigable.
| Reported by: | colin.clark@utoronto.ca | Owned by: | paul |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.8 |
| Component: | ui.core | Version: | 1.5b4 |
| Keywords: | accessibility | Cc: | davidb, michelled, acheetham |
| 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 (10)
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 May 24, 2008 03:39AM UTC by comment:3
| milestone: | 1.2.4 |
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Milestone 1.2.4 deleted
Changed May 24, 2008 07:12PM UTC by comment:4
| version: | 1.2.3 → 1.5b4 |
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Changed July 04, 2008 05:59PM UTC by comment:5
| milestone: | → 1.6b |
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Changed July 15, 2008 10:27PM UTC by comment:6
| cc: | davidb → davidb, michelled, acheetham |
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Changed July 15, 2008 10:30PM UTC by comment:7
Please note that the keyboard plugin Colin mentions has a new location: https://source.fluidproject.org/svn/fluid/components/trunk/src/webapp/fluid-components/js/jquery/jquery.keyboard-a11y.js
Changed August 16, 2008 03:30PM UTC by comment:8
| milestone: | 1.6b → TDB |
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Changed May 07, 2009 11:32AM UTC by comment:9
| milestone: | TBD → 1.8 |
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Changed May 07, 2009 11:44AM UTC by comment:10
| resolution: | → invalid |
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| status: | new → closed |
Provided links are broken.
More important, plugins with keyboard navigation handle it fine by themselves. We'd rather extract existing keyboard handling into common functions.