In an effort to make my form more accessible, what I'm trying to figure out is that if the user presses enter on either the Agree
or Disagree
button, the tab-focus should skip to the next agree
button. I've added a class to every instance of Agree
buttons (next-btn
), so now I just need to write a function that focuses on the next instance of next-btn
.
The HTML is as follows:
<form id="quiz" style="text-align: center;">
<div id="questions">
<div class="list-group-item">
<p>I often make spontaneous or last-minute decisions</p>
<div class="btn-group btn-group-justified button-wrap">
<div class="btn-group"><input tabindex="-1" type="radio" name="q1" id="yes-q1" value="yellow" class="btn agree-btn" required/><label tabindex="0" class="button-label next-btn" for="yes-q1">Agree</label></div>
<div class="btn-group"><input tabindex="-1" type="radio" name="q1" id="no-q1" value="blue" class="btn disagree-btn"/><label tabindex="0" class="button-label" for="no-q1">Disagree</label></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="list-group-item">
<p>My ideas are often unconventional or radical</p>
<div class="btn-group btn-group-justified button-wrap">
<div class="btn-group"><input tabindex="-1" type="radio" name="q2" id="yes-q2" value="yellow" class="btn agree-btn" required/><label tabindex="0" class="button-label next-btn" for="yes-q2">Agree</label></div>
<div class="btn-group"><input tabindex="-1" type="radio" name="q2" id="no-q2" value="blue" class="btn disagree-btn" required/><label tabindex="0" class="button-label" for="no-q2">Disagree</label></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="list-group-item">
<p>I am naturally inclined to step forward and lead the group</p>
<div class="btn-group btn-group-justified button-wrap">
<div class="btn-group"><input tabindex="-1" type="radio" name="q3" id="yes-q3" value="red" class="btn agree-btn" required/><label tabindex="0" class="button-label next-btn" for="yes-q3">Agree</label></div>
<div class="btn-group"><input tabindex="-1" type="radio" name="q3" id="no-q3" value="blue" class="btn disagree-btn" required/><label tabindex="0" class="button-label" for="no-q3">Disagree</label></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<button id="submit-btn" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" type="submit" value="Submit" style="margin-top: 50px;">Submit</button>
</form>
and the relevant JavaScript I have written is here:
const buttons = document.querySelectorAll(".button-label");
for(let answerButton of buttons) {
answerButton.addEventListener('keydown', focusHere);
// Simulate click event on tab + entering (accessiblity feature)
function focusHere(event) {
if (event.key == 'Enter') {
// Trigger the click for the input
answerButton.click();
// Set focus to the next Agree button (next question)
document.querySelector(".next-btn").focus();
}
}
}
Does anyone have suggestions on how I can specify the next instance of a class with my current form setup? I appreciate your help.
So I used Array#forEach
to iterate through the array and get the index of the button.
So I use the buttons
array because it contains all the button.button-label
elements, and the .next-btn
elements have the .button-label
class.
So I slice the buttons
array to return all the items in the array after the one that called the focusHere
function, and found the first item or instance of the .next-btn
element
const buttons = [...document.querySelectorAll(".button-label")];
buttons.forEach((answerButton, i) => {
answerButton.addEventListener('keydown', focusHere);
function focusHere(event) {
if (event.key == 'Enter') {
answerButton.click();
buttons.slice(i).find(btn => btn.classList.contains('next-btn')).focus();
}
}
});