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Re: Keyboard behavior with JAWS

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Aug 24, 2015 6:19AM

> From: WebAIM-Forum On Behalf Of pratik roy
> Sent: 24 August 2015 11:05
>
> 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".

You don't need to use the keypress handler. When the <button> element is used with a click handler, the browser automatically handles keyboard interaction for you.


Léonie.

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