Open Bug 1280094 Opened 9 years ago Updated 6 months ago

[a11y] Make it easier to focus first control in Dev Tools with the keyboard

Categories

(DevTools :: General, enhancement, P3)

Product:
DevTools
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: Jamie, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: access)

When Dev Tools is open, it's currently difficult to get to the first control using the keyboard. You can get to the last control by shift+tabbing from the Address bar. However, getting to the first control requires shift+tabbing through everything else in Dev Tools or tabbing to the end of the web document and then pressing tab once more. I suggest one of two solutions: 1. Make Dev Tools accessible via the f6 key, which is used to switch between main panels. This would be my preference. 2. Put Dev Tools *after* the Address bar in the tab order instead of before. A possible problem is that this gets messy if you have a side bar such as History or Bookmarks open.
Solution 1 would be my preferred way forward, too.
Blocks: devtoolsa11y
Severity: normal → enhancement
This is still valid, the dev tools should be included in the F6 order.
Product: Firefox → DevTools

Which files do I need to look at to try fixing this? Searching for either f6 or keyboard and the like returns too many hits.

Severity: normal → S3
No longer blocks: devtoolsa11y
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