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ASP.NET Core Chat Keyboard Navigation

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Files:
keyboard_navigation.cshtml
Keyboard_NavigationController.cs
Keyboard_Navigation_TagHelper.cshtml

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Description

Keyboard navigation provides all web and app users with a fast keyboard-only navigation capability and is also part of the web accessibility features–it enables users with disabilities to fully control their website or app access through the keyboard.

By default, users can only navigate to links, buttons, and form controls with a keyboard. The navigation order in which interactive items receive keyboard focus has to be logical and intuitive. Generally, keyboard navigation logic needs to follow the visual horizontal and vertical flow of the page, for example, left to right and top to bottom, header first followed by the main and then the page navigation.

The keyboard navigation of the Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core Chat is always available as demonstrated in this demo.

The Chat supports the following keyboard shortcuts:

Supported Keys and User Actions

Focus

  • Alt + W Focuses the message input.

Keyboard Shortcuts applicable to the k-bubble element

  • Up Arrow Selects and focuses the previous Chat bubble
  • Down Arrow Selects and focuses the next Chat bubble
  • Home Selects and focuses the first Chat bubble
  • End Selects and focuses the last Chat bubble

Keyboard Shortcuts applicable to the k-suggestion, k-bubble-expandable-indicator, and k-input-suffix button elements

  • Enter/Space Triggers a click action on the element.

Keyboard Shortcuts applicable to the k-input-inner element

  • Enter Sends the message.
  • Shift + Enter Start a new line in the textarea message box.

This section lists the keyboard shortcuts supported by the Chat composite component.

Toolbar Component

The Chat includes a toolbar component for message actions and file operations. See the ToolBar keyboard navigation documentation for detailed shortcuts.

DropDownButton Component

The Chat uses dropdown buttons for various actions. See the DropDownButton accessibility documentation for keyboard support.

SpeechToTextButton Component

When speech-to-text functionality is enabled. See the SpeechToTextButton accessibility documentation for keyboard navigation.

ContextMenu Component

The ContextMenu component provides a context menu for the chat bubble upon Right Click / Shift + F10 key press.

See the ContextMenu accessibility documentation for detailed keyboard shortcuts.

Additional Apps

This Chat example is part of unique collection of hundreds of ASP.NET Core demos, with which you can see all Telerik ASP.NET Core components and their features in action. View the source code of the demos from the library or directly adapt, and edit them and their theme appearance in Telerik REPL for ASP.NET Core or ThemeBuilder.

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