managing focus on mouse events for dropdown?

[paypal]

managing focus on mouse events for dropdown?

[weboverhauls]

I feel this is a question more for the community than a particular library or plugin. My answer is no. Separating mouse and keyboard interaction: 1. adds unnecessary code 2. adds a layer of complexity to the interaction model (which usually isn't addressed adequately as it is now) 3. treating keyboard users differently is demeaning and a bad practice--as is treating any other type of user differently; for example, text-only pages for screen readers is a no-no. 4. Isn't recommended by WCAG as far as I know.

[gdkraus]

For some reason the link above is no longer referencing the issue I was asking about. In the current commit it's at https://github.com/paypal/bootstrap-accessibility-plugin/blob/master/plugins/js/bootstrap-accessibility.js#L119-L123

The reason I ask is not to diminish keyboard support but to deal with a general usability issue I noticed. When I click on one of the drop down menus, my keyboard focus is automatically shifted to the first item in the menu, and the menu item gets highlighted. Now when I mouse down through the menu past the first item I have two highlighted menu items - the first item in the window because it has the focus, and also the item I am hovering over. This just seems visually a little odd. Is it possible to only explicitly set the focus to the first menu item when someone opens the menu with the keyboard?

[mpnkhan]

Test url http://mpnkhan.github.io/bootstrap-accessibility-plugin/demo.html#dropdowns

[vick08]

For some reason the menu items are spoken twice with VoiceOver on Safari.

On Oct 24, 2014, at 9:03 PM, Nawaz [email protected] wrote:

Test url http://mpnkhan.github.io/bootstrap-accessibility-plugin/demo.html#dropdowns http://mpnkhan.github.io/bootstrap-accessibility-plugin/demo.html#dropdowns
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[mpnkhan]

Fixed with 80fd9db