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accDND - The Keyboard and Screen Reader Accessible Drag and Drop Plugin

Submitted by bgaraventa on November 25, 2009 - 4:30am

About

accDND is a keyboard and screen reader accessible drag and drop functionality plugin for jQuery.

Features include:

  • Dragging selected options between unlimited Select fields by pressing the drag key ("`"), or cancel ("Escape") to stop dragging.
  • Optional flashing status messages to enhance user interaction.
  • WAI-ARIA support to enable automatic announcement of status messages for screen reader users.
  • Dynamic screen reader accessible hidden text to ensure accessibility for assistive technologies and browser versions that don't support ARIA.

Details

accDND was created to provide a fully accessible method for keyboard users to drag options between unlimited Select fields on a page.