Introducing mapKey

I’ve been seeing more and more websites offering great navigation with the keyboard, and I started wondering how i’d put it to use in my own work. That gave me an idea to make a jQuery plugin to make it super easy for anyone to add keyboard navigation to their site. I love keyboard navigation a lot, so please use this plugin!

mapKey lets you simply target any link on your site or call a function with a keyboard character. Using it is pretty simple:

$("a#next-page").mapKey("right");

Or, to call a function:

$.mapKey("left", function(){
  alert("you hit the left button!");
});

$.mapKey(“right”, rightFunction);

Check out the demo, download it, or view the source on GitHub.