Fully polyfill KeyEvent so that you can programmatically create your own "keyboard" events.

tools/dom/src/EventStreamProvider.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2013, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 part of html;
 
 /**
  * Adapter for exposing DOM events as Dart streams.
  */
 class _EventStream<T extends Event> extends Stream<T> {
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         bool cancelOnError}) =>
       _stream.listen(onData, onError: onError, onDone: onDone,
           cancelOnError: cancelOnError);
   Stream<T> asBroadcastStream({void onListen(StreamSubscription subscription),
                                void onCancel(StreamSubscription subscription)})
       => _stream;
   bool get isBroadcast => true;
 }
 
 /**
+ * A stream of custom events, which enables the user to "fire" (add) their own
+ * custom events to a stream.
+ */
+abstract class CustomStream<T extends Event> implements Stream<T> {
+  /**
+   * Add the following custom event to the stream for dispatching to interested
+   * listeners.
+   */
+  void add(T event);

[strom, 2013/09/12 15:42:41]

I understand using add() here, especially since it has the same signature as the
EventSink version. Still, I would imagine that it would be confusing to some
since you need a stream controller/sink everywhere else.

Maybe dispatch?

KeyEvent.
  keyPressEvent.
  forTarget(document.body).
  dispatch(new KeyEvent(...));

+}
+
+class _CustomEventStreamImpl<T extends Event> extends Stream<T>
+    implements CustomStream<T> {
+  StreamController<T> _streamController;
+  /** The type of event this stream is providing (e.g. "keydown"). */
+  String _type;
+
+  _CustomEventStreamImpl(String type) {
+    _type = type;
+    _streamController = new StreamController.broadcast(sync: true);
+  }
+
+  // Delegate all regular Stream behavior to our wrapped Stream.
+  StreamSubscription<T> listen(void onData(T event),
+      { void onError(error),
+        void onDone(),
+        bool cancelOnError}) {
+    return _streamController.stream.listen(onData, onError: onError,
+        onDone: onDone, cancelOnError: cancelOnError);
+  }
+
+  Stream<T> asBroadcastStream({void onListen(StreamSubscription subscription),
+                               void onCancel(StreamSubscription subscription)})
+      => _streamController.stream;
+
+  bool get isBroadcast => true;
+
+  void add(T event) {
+    if (event.type == _type) _streamController.add(event);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
  * A pool of streams whose events are unified and emitted through a central
  * stream.
  */
 // TODO (efortuna): Remove this when Issue 12218 is addressed.
 class _StreamPool<T> {
   StreamController<T> _controller;
 
   /// Subscriptions to the streams that make up the pool.
   var _subscriptions = new Map<Stream<T>, StreamSubscription<T>>();
 
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   ElementStream<T> _forElementList(ElementList e,
       {bool useCapture: false}) {
     return new _ElementListEventStreamImpl(e, _eventTypeGetter(e), useCapture);
   }
 
   String getEventType(EventTarget target) {
     return _eventTypeGetter(target);
   }
 }