[Google Maps API v3] Re: Google Map Selection

2012-02-10 Thread pogue5
I was able to find a solution on another message board using the jquery javascript file. Heres the link if it is helpful to anyone else. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9195814/google-maps-v3-keyboard-accessibility/9218055#9218055 This solution enables a user to tab down to the map and immediat

[Google Maps API v3] Re: Google Map Selection

2012-02-10 Thread pogue5
I tried these functions: function setKeys() {var event = {srcElement: mapContainer, target: mapContainer, nodeType: 1}; google.maps.event.trigger(document, "click", event); }function noKeys() { var event = {srcElement: body, target: body, nodeType: 1}; google.maps.event.tr

[Google Maps API v3] Re: Google Map Selection

2012-02-10 Thread pogue5
I was able to trigger an event using google.maps.event.trigger(marker, 'click') but only with markers. I tried this code for the map in general using google.maps.event.trigger(map, 'click) or google.maps.event.trigger(document.getElementById("map"), 'click') but that did not work. Do you know

Re: [Google Maps API v3] Re: Google Map Selection

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew Leach
On 9 February 2012 19:52, Rossko wrote: > > This is about v2 API but should give you some ideas > http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/keyboard-accessible-google-maps/ Hmm. Most of that article was written (in one form or another) by Pamela Fox. That particularly applies to the keyboard switcher, w

[Google Maps API v3] Re: Google Map Selection

2012-02-09 Thread Rossko
> Is there a keyboard shortcut which one can implement when on a google maps > page so that you can select the map without clicking on it? That would be a function of the webpage - "shift focus to some arbritary element on this page" - and not of the map. You might look outside the maps arena. T