Create a shared utility for making widgets keyboard navigable.

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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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Milestone 1.2.4 deleted

[davidb]

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

[Jörn Zaefferer]

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.