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Keyboard A11y API
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jQuery().tabindex()
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Gets the tabindex value of the first matched element. If the element doesn't have a tabindex attribute, undefined is returned. The value returned is normalized to a Number, since browser implementations vary.
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jQuery().tabindex(value)
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Sets the tabindex value on all matched elements. value can be either a String or a Number, but valid tabindex attributes need to be integers.
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jQuery().removeTabindex()
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Removes the tabindex attribute from all matched elements.
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jQuery().hasTabindexAttr()
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Returns true if the element has a tabindex attribute, and returns false if tabindex is not set. Neither Simon or I have yet to come up with a reliable method for querying tabindex attributes on versions of IE < 6, so this method will always return false on IE 5.5 and below.
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jQuery().hasTabindex()
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Returns true if the element has a tabindex attribute, or is an HTML element that is included in the tab order by default (i.e. a, input, button, select, area, textarea, or object).
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jQuery().tabbable()
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Adds all matched elements to the tab order by giving them a tabindex attribute of "0."
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jQuery().selectable(container, customHandlers, options)
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Makes all matched elements selectable with the arrow keys. Provide your own customHandlers to inject custom styling and logic. Options lets you modify the plugin's default selection behaviour.
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jQuery().activatable(customHandlers, options)
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Makes all matched elements activatable with the Spacebar and Enter keys. Provide your own handlers to trigger custom behaviour. Options allow you to activate elements using other keystrokes.
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jQuery ().selectNext ();
jQuery ().selectPrevious ();
jQuery ().select (elementToSelect);
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Selects the next, previous, or specified element in the list of selectables.
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jQuery ().currentSelection ();
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Gets the currently selected element.
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jQuery ().activate (elementToActivate);
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Activates the specified item using the default activation handlerThe API can be found on the jQuery Keyboard Accessibility Plugin page.