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From: pratik roy
Date: Aug 24, 2015 4:04AM

Recently, I faced a scenario where keyboard "Enter" key is not functioning
as expected and we have to press "Alt+Enter" in order to make it work.

In our webpage, we have some button elements and onclick of those buttons,
it is performing some action. We have used onkeypress event with
keycode="13" (Enter) to handle the functionality. But when I hit Enter it
is not even firing the event but working absolutely normal with "Alt+Enter".

After that, I tried to do console.log() and saw that all key stock action
is working normally if I press any key with "Alt".

Now, my problem is, I am not sure whether that key combination is common
for screen reader user or not.

If anyone can share user experience for this kind of senario or a solution
of this problem, that will be GREAT Help.

Note: All keyboard keys are working fine with role="application" but I
don't want to make it a application region. :)

Thanks & Regards
PRATIK ROY

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