Keyboard-accessible Google Maps

Google Maps is a fantastic API for adding powerful mapping functionality to your web applications quickly, but the accessibility leaves a little bit to be desired. In this article, Patrick Lauke shows how to construct a solution to improve things, adding keyboard accessibility to Google Maps.

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Nice work Patrick. Looking forward to the next one.

Wow, that's a fantastic implementation of acessibility issues that I actually was missing in the Google Maps tool. I'm glad that there is already a solution to this problem. Thanks!

Thanks Patrick for this solution. usefull and easy to implement... tested and adopted!
To be completely complete , it would also be necessary to define a value of tabindex for each button. This would make it possible to respect the order of tabulation on the page (just two lines to add in your code...).
Thanks,
Jef

Marvelous piece of code. Anyone has any idea on how to override default keys? For example, changing cursor keys to WASD? I'm trying to use this on device, that is controlled by infrared remote control, which does not generate keystrokes for these particular keys. And, by the way, browser returns Apple WebKit in its User-Agent, if it makes any difference.