Disabling jQuery UI Accordion with space bar toggling

Question

I see in jQuery UI accordian you can use the space bar to toggle active headers. How can one disable this? I don\'t want the user to use keyboard to interact with the accord

Answer 1

I developed an answer to just enabling the spacebar, but it could be expanded for other keydown events you want to override.

/*
 * Detect spacebar and return immediately, otherwise call standard behaviour
 * The 'solution' of deleting the event handler caused other errors
 * http://stackoverflow.com/a/7008791
*/
$.ui.accordion.prototype._originalKeyDown = $.ui.accordion.prototype._keydown;
$.ui.accordion.prototype._keydown = function( event ) {
    var keyCode = $.ui.keyCode;

    if (event.keyCode == keyCode.SPACE) {
        return;
    }
    // call the original method
    this._originalKeyDown(event);
};