[Solved] kendo-dropdownbutton - disabled item still accessible for keyboard navigation

Hi Miljana,

Thank you for the details provided. I will address below the observed behaviors of the DropDownButton.

Firstly, I want to clarify that the keyboard focus on disabled items is intentional. To be more comprehensive, disabled items should remain accessible through keyboard navigation so that users are aware that this option exists and that it is currently disabled. Removing disabled items from the focus order entirely would prevent users from discovering that such an option exists, which would be against accessibility best practices.

In this line of thought, regarding the behavior where pressing the Enter key on a disabled item closes the popup, I want to confirm that this is indeed a bug on our side. When a disabled item is focused and Enter is pressed, the DropDownButton popup should stay open, and no action should be taken.

For this reason, I logged the following bug report in our public GitHub repository:

• https://github.com/telerik/kendo-angular/issues/4885

Feel free to subscribe to the above issue in order to stay up-to-date with any progress on the bug resolution. As a small token of gratitude for reporting this behavior, I have updated the Telerik points of your account.

We apologize for any inconvenience that the mentioned bug might have caused on your side.

Regards,
Zornitsa
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