The Keyboard navigation major feature is now available with the Q2 ServicePack1 release. You can start using it immediately in WPF and Silverlight and as a result enhance your application’s Usability and Accessibility.
The API is pretty straight-forward. First you should enable Key tips, for the instance of a RadRibbonBar, with simple attached property like follows.
<
telerik:RadRibbonBar
telerik:KeyTipService.IsKeyTipsEnabled
=
"True"
>
Then you can attach key tip text to every component in the RadRibbonBar with simple line of code.
<
telerik:ApplicationMenu
telerik:KeyTipService.AccessText
=
"F"
>
Some components need alternative key tip activation text like the RibbonGroup. Foe example one could be used for the DialogLauncher button and one for the group itself, when the group is collapsed due to insufficient space.
<
telerik:RadRibbonGroup
telerik:KeyTipService.AccessText
=
"FN"
telerik:KeyTipService.AltAccessText
=
"ZF"
>
Download the sample project.
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