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jQuery ToolBar Keyboard Navigation

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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 ToolBar is always available as demonstrated in this demo.

This ToolBar 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 ToolBar supports the following keyboard shortcuts:

Focus

  • Alt + W Focuses the component.

Supported Keys and User Actions

  • Right Arrow Focuses the next focusable item.
  • Left Arrow Focuses the previous focusable item.
  • Enter Selects the focused button, or enters the inner template navigation if the template contains focusable items, or opens CommandOverflow menu when overflow anchor is focused.
  • Space Selects the focused button, or opens CommandOverflow menu when overflow anchor is focused.
  • Home Focuses the first focusable item.
  • End Focuses the last focusable item.
  • Esc If the inner template navigation is activated, moves the focus back to the ToolBar item.

Actions Applied to the SplitButton or CommandOverflow

  • Alt + Down Arrow Opens the SplitButton or CommandOverflow menu.
  • Down Arrow Focuses the next item in the SplitButton or CommandOverflow menu.
  • Up Arrow Focuses the previous item in the SplitButton or CommandOverflow menu.
  • Alt + Up Arrow Closes the SplitButton or CommandOverflow menu.
  • Esc Closes the SplitButton or CommandOverflow menu.
  • Enter Selects the focused button.
  • Space Selects the focused button.

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