An alt input toolbox pattern was established back in https://github.com/phetsims/a11y-research/issues/166#issuecomment-1991685964, but a nice improvement would be to have all items in the toolbox be a single item in focus order. We won't work on this now, but we should work closely with the above issues in case there is a common code module that could achieve this for many different interactions.
Interaction:
Tab to the whole toolbox (with multiple items inside)
Use arrows to cycle through the tool icon you want
Button interaction to "grab" or "create" that tool.
Focus transfers to the created tool, and you can drag it around with normal keyboard dragging interaction.
From https://github.com/phetsims/a11y-research/issues/166 and very related to https://github.com/phetsims/sun/issues/874 and https://github.com/phetsims/scenery-phet/issues/844.
An alt input toolbox pattern was established back in https://github.com/phetsims/a11y-research/issues/166#issuecomment-1991685964, but a nice improvement would be to have all items in the toolbox be a single item in focus order. We won't work on this now, but we should work closely with the above issues in case there is a common code module that could achieve this for many different interactions.
Interaction: