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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Aug 24, 2024 5:51PM

In a grid, you do expect the arrow keys to navigate between cells and only
one cell in the grid to be focusable (so tab key navigates to and from the
grid).
If each grid cell is a letter you should probably implement spacebar press
to select/grab it and if one is already selected spacebar should drop it
(moving the existing letter to the next grid cell).
That being said, I haven't played a crossword puzzle in forever so not sure
how helpful that idea is.


On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 6:15 PM Mike Warner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm revamping the accessibility of our crossword puzzle feature and was
> wondering what the expected behavior of the tab and arrow keys would be.
> Should the boxes for the letters be tabbable or just navigable via arrows?
> Right now our current version uses the tab key to navigate the crossword
> grid. The arrows don't have a behavior in the grid.
>
> I found only one accessible crossword game built with html and javascript:
>
> https://crossword.aphtech.org/?openWithUrl=http://select.nytimes.com/premium/xword/Apr0109.puz
> Does that behave as you'd expect?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> Mike Warner
> Director of IT Services
> MindEdge Learning
> > > > >


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