Basic keyboard access for recently_closed menu on NTP. Allows using up and down arrows to navigate,…

chrome/browser/resources/shared/js/cr/ui/menu.js

 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 cr.define('cr.ui', function() {
 
   /** @const */ var MenuItem = cr.ui.MenuItem;
 
   /**
    * Creates a new menu element. Menu dispatches all commands on the element it
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       switch (e.keyIdentifier) {
         case 'Down':
           selectNextAvailable(1);
           return true;
         case 'Up':
           selectNextAvailable(-1);
           return true;
         case 'Enter':
         case 'U+0020': // Space
           if (item) {
-            if (cr.dispatchSimpleEvent(item, 'activate', true, true)) {
+            var activationEvent = cr.doc.createEvent('Event');
+            activationEvent.initEvent('activate', true, true);
+            activationEvent.originalEvent = e;
+            if (item.dispatchEvent(activationEvent)) {
               if (item.command)
                 item.command.execute();
             }
           }
           return true;
       }
 
       return false;
     },
 
     /**
      * Updates menu items command according to context.
      * @param {Node=} node Node for which to actuate commands state.
      */
     updateCommands: function(node) {
       var children = this.children;
 
       for (var i = 0, child; child = children[i]; i++)
         child.updateCommand(node);
     }
   };
 
   function selectedIndexChanged(selectedIndex, oldSelectedIndex) {
     var oldSelectedItem = this.children[oldSelectedIndex];
     if (oldSelectedItem)
       oldSelectedItem.selected = false;
     var item = this.selectedItem;
-    if (item)
+    if (item) {
       item.selected = true;
+      item.focus();
+    }
   }
 
   /**
    * The selected menu item.
    * @type {number}
    */
   cr.defineProperty(Menu, 'selectedIndex', cr.PropertyKind.JS,
       selectedIndexChanged);
 
   // Export
   return {
     Menu: Menu
   };
 });