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Re: Detecting keyboard usage

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Sep 17, 2013 7:18AM

Alastair Campbell wrote:
" Does anyone know of a reliable way of detecting keyboard usage? (And why
doesn't this impact ARIA widgets?)"

Screen readers that utilise a virtual buffer will automatically switch into
application mode when they encounter certain ARIA widgets. This stops the
screen reader from intercepting the keys, and passes them back through to
the browser instead.

Léonie.