keyboard accessibility of pattern menus

[equivalentideas]

I don't seem to be able to activate the pattern dropdown menus with the keyboard. I see that you can tab through the actual links inside, but this doesn't give you the same visual experience of seeing all the options available.

I quite like Filament Group's approach to this: http://filamentgroup.com/lab/expand_and_collapse_content_accessibly_with_progressive_enhancement_jquery/

As a keyboard (not screen reader) user I'd like to have the same experience as pointer users have. Interested to see what others think.

[dmolsen]

@equivalentideas -

This is a really good idea. I should have thought of it when I landed the jwerty functionality for select keyboard commands. We'll add it to the road map.

[bradfrost]

@dmolsen Just adding my two cents here. I think it's important to choose these keyboard shortcuts wisely as to not interfere with any user keyboard shortcut assignments.

[equivalentideas]

If you could just tab through and select with space bar, that would avoid a
conflict.

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@dmolsen https://github.com/dmolsen Just adding my two cents here. I
think it's important to choose these keyboard shortcuts wisely as to not
interfere with any user keyboard shortcut assignments.

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[dmolsen]

@bradfrost -

Understood. It's why all of these use ctrl+shift to keep them away from system commands but that still only gets one so far. I can't predict tools and their own assignments. I'm sure someone will complain if I step on a really popular keyboard shortcut. Like, say, a screenshot utility ;)

And @equivalentideas beat me to what I would have expected to implement in this particular case.