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From: mhysnm1964
Date: Jun 22, 2018 12:26AM

Hi all.

I have a dev who is doing something really non-standard. As far as I
understand the issue at this point of time. He wants to use the up/down
arrow to move between meetings. The left and right arrow moving between the
days. Using non-application mode will not work due to screen readers as far
as I can tell. But he wants use the application role to achieve this. These
UI I am referring to have buttons for next and prior day. The meetings from
memory are not in any UI element like a list.

Any ideas how this can be achieved without using application mode?


How does the javascript keyboard event handle keyboard navigation when it is
not on an element. Do you have to apply the keyboard event to the body of
the html and track from there?

Sean