121918 - spacebar produces scroll down, not link follow on focused anchor containing image

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[David Anderson]

when tabbing over an anchored image

1. there no outline on selected anchor
2. hitting spacebar doesn't fire an href follow, just a scroll down

see url

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This looks like a duplicate of bug 72703 which has been marked a duplicate of
bug 73883 which has been verified as a duplicate of fixed bug 73884. This is
still a problem so I'm guessing it's a different bug. Maybe it's actually closer
to bug 67966. Over to Layout. 

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

With the latest build (March 14th), I see a tab outline on buttons and image but
not the select element. 

Comment 3

[David Anderson]

updated url, changed summary 

from 
tabindex, tabbing problems with anchor that has an image

to
spacebar produces scroll down, not link follow on focused anchor containing image

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to keyboard nav to decide whether space should trigger links...

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

Spacebar is not intended to activate links, only to page down. It has nothing to
do with whether the link is an image or not. If you want space to activate it,
make it an image button.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

agreed (other than spacebar activating buttons in xul, but that's not this issue).