How can I make a completely keyboard accessible sketch widget?

Question

Hi all,

We are trying to make out web app more accessible, and I have a few questions for how to make our sketch tools keyboard accessible.

Firstly, is there a keyboard shortcut already for starting a sketch? I found the ones for adding vertices but now would like to start the sketch of a polygon or line using only a keyboard.

Secondly, is there a keyboard control for selecting the graphic to edit, and then to control the transforms etc with keyboard only?

Lastly, do you have any recommendations for starting the drawing at a specific point? E.g. with a mouse you would usually click where you want to start, or move the cursor and then can use the keyboard controls. After calling mapView.focus() how can I get the cursor into position on the mapView to start sketching?

Thanks in advance!

Alex Dunham

Anonymous User · Answer

Wonderful! I think for me I'm interested in next level a11y work, beyond the standard web page requirements, and more specific to building widgets etc with the Esri JS API that are fully accessible.

Anonymous User · Answer

I think yes. Feel free to share the topics you are interested in and we can try to include them in the presentation.

Anonymous User · Answer

That is awesome, thank you! Excited to get building!

Out of interest, will there be any a11y workshops at dev summit 2020?