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yannickberger
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6 years 11 months ago #170416 by yannickberger

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Hello everyone,
I am working with people with visual disabilities and for them it's very important to have to possibility to navigate with the keyboard.

So my question is it possible with Javascript to create key shortcuts to navigate within question blocks ?

For exemple if they press :

CTRL+N -> they go to the next question
CTRL+B -> they go back to last question

Any help would be much appreciated

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6 years 11 months ago - 6 years 11 months ago #170418 by urbana

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Hi sure, you can bind an event to the combination and trigger the button:

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<script>
$( document ).ready(function() {
    $(document).keypress(function(e){
        if( e.which === 14 &amp;&amp; e.ctrlKey ){
            $("#ls-button-submit").trigger('click');
        }
        else if( e.which === 2 &amp;&amp; e.ctrlKey ){
            alert('control + b'); 
            //trigger here the id of a back button
        }          
    });
});
</script>

I tested it, it should work

Last edit: 6 years 11 months ago by urbana.

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6 years 11 months ago #170424 by yannickberger

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Ok I manage to understand your code, but couldn't make it work properly.

This will apply to current survey so I need to put it in my theme : for instance in custom.js am I right ?

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6 years 11 months ago #170425 by urbana

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Yes an overall js should work.
I placed it for my test just in the helptext but that is of course not efficient.
I attached you my test survey so you can test it - back btns aren't active so CTRL-B doesn't work. But CTRL-N works.
You'll find the script in the help text of the first question and in the welcome text of the survey

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...vey_884927.lss

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6 years 11 months ago #170426 by yannickberger

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I imported your survey and tried your to hit : ctrl+n at the description page and at the first question page but nothing happened.

I see your Survey was in German, so I assume you have a german keyboard maybe there is a difference with my Swiss(french) keyboard with the key.

I'll investigate but I got the main idea so thank's for help

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6 years 11 months ago #170427 by urbana

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That could be the case but does it differ that much?
You can rewrite the script to alert(e.which) to get the number of the key when you press CTRL+N on your keyboard

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