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Re: ARIA menubar/menuitem keyboard use

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From: Gunderson, Jon R
Date: Feb 13, 2013 9:07AM

You must add the keyboard event handlers to add the keyboard support, some examples:

http://oaa-accessibility.org/examples/role/85/

http://hanshillen.github.com/jqtest/#goto_menubar

ARIA does not add any keyboard behavior, it only provides descriptive information to accessibility APIs when that element has keyboard focus.

You should review:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#kbd_general_within

Jon