[Q] Why skip keyboard processing on alt-key?

Making issue because @robdodson looped in @alice:

Looking at the JS implementation of OAA’s tab panel they are skipping their keyboard processing code when the alt key is pressed. Any idea why that is?

tabpanel.prototype.handleTabKeyPress = function($tab, e) { 
  if (e.altKey) { 
    // do nothing 
    return true; 
  } 

  switch (e.keyCode) { 
  // ...
  }
}

[alice]

Makes sense - if someone is using the Alt key they’re probably using a keyboard shortcut for something else. e.g. JAWS uses Alt+up/down arrow to read previous/next sentence.

[surma]

@notwaldorf I meant the more nuanced version of course. I meant “add it to all the elements where necessary”. oops 🙄