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jQuery Menu Keyboard Navigation

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keyboard-navigation.jsp
KeyboardNavigationController.java

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Description

Keyboard navigation provides all web and app users with a fast keyboard-only navigation capability and is also part of the web accessibility features—it enables users with disabilities to fully control their website or app access through the keyboard.

By default, users can only navigate to links, buttons, and form controls with a keyboard. The navigation order in which interactive items receive keyboard focus has to be logical and intuitive. Generally, keyboard navigation logic needs to follow the visual horizontal and vertical flow of the page, for example, left to right and top to bottom, header first followed by the main and then the page navigation.

The keyboard navigation of the Kendo UI for jQuery Menu is always available as demonstrated in this demo.

This Menu example is part of a unique collection of hundreds of jQuery demos, with which you can see all Kendo UI for jQuery components and their features in action. View the source code of the demos from the library or directly adapt, and edit them and their theme appearance in Kendo UI for jQuery Dojo or ThemeBuilder.

The Menu supports the following keyboard shortcuts:

Focus

  • Alt + W Focuses the vertical Menu. Clicking on it or tabbing also works.
  • Alt + Q Focuses the horizontal Menu. Clicking on it or tabbing also works.

Supported Keys and User Actions

  • Home Goes to the first item.
  • End Goes to the last item.
  • Right Arrow Goes to the next item or opens an item group.
  • Left Arrow Goes to the previous item or closes an item group.
  • Down Arrow Opens an item group or goes to the next item in a group.
  • Up Arrow Goes to the previous item in a group.
  • Enter Selects or navigates the item (same as the click action).
  • Space Selects or navigates the item (same as the click action).
  • Esc Closes the innermost open group.
  • Tab Tabs away from the Menu on the next focusable page element.
  • Shift + Tab Tabs away from the Menu on the previous focusable page element.

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