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TerrySpringer
Community Member
9 years ago

Keyboard Accessible Drag & Drop Example

The challenge was to make a drag and drop interface that is also keyboard accessible for JAWS screen readers (with Internet Explorer 11). I took a portion of the existing Healthy Choices example and...
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JoeWaddington1
Community Member
8 years ago

Hi all - I used to work with Terry, and can share with you that he has retired (Lucky him! - unfortunately for us!) he was amazing at finding creative ways to address accessibility. I just stumbled upon this post because I was searching for a creative way to make accessible drag-and-drops.

I'll grab his file, and if I'm able to come up with any interesting add-ons, I'll share it with the community.

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    TeresaVanderpos
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Thanks so much,
    I am trying to convince organization to use Drag and Drops, but with accessibility it is a hard sell.

    I was trying to review how Terry did this, and my only issue is that the Tab feature only works if I start with the spacebar for the next button, if I click with the mouse it doesn’t activate it on the next screen, and I think they want people to have both options available…

    Thanks
    Teresa

     

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