129336 - Mail: Problems with keyboard accessability

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alexander Zink :alex]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    20020204

If I try to use the keyboard to access all functionality of the mail
application, I run into severe trouble. Many settings do not seem to be
accessable without using the pointer device, many items are not accessable with
the normal (operating system wide) methods.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the Mozilla Mail application
2. Press the "TAB" key twice to reach the "Advanced" button next to the "Subject
or Recipient contains" edit box
3. -> "Space" key does not work to activate the button (as with every other
button under Windows; this seems to be a general problem of Mozilla!), instead
the input focus is transferred to the mail list view

4. Press "Ctrl-M" to start a new mail
5. The TAB key swithes between the "From" field, the "Mail address" field,
"Subject" and "Body" 
6. -> You never can reach the "Type of address" field left of the "To" field (as
you could in Netscape" - you _have_ to use the mouse to define if an address is
a "To", "BC" or "CC"...

7. Use the TAB key to switch to the "Mail address" field and type an address,
then press enter to start the next address. Repeat this four times
8. Try to get back to the first address using the TAB key; it is not possible!
9. -> As soon as more email addresses than displayable lines are listed, the
input focus switches to the "From" field when the user presses "Shift-TAB" while
currenlty staying in the first _displayed_ address field. In the same way the
focus switches from the "From" field to the first _displayed_ address item when
the user presses TAB (instead of scrolling the list of addresses and setting the
focus to the _first_ address of the list)
10. -> The same problem occurs in the last _displayed_ address line: if the user
presses the TAB key, the focus switches to the "Subject" field  instead of
scrolling down the list of addresses to the following item

11. Additional Note: Netscape allowed to enter several email addresses into one
line, separated by "comma" or "sapce" (without surrounding quotation marks);
Mozilla just keeps this (often invalid) string and interprets it as an email
address... Is this done by design?

Comment 1

[John Levon]

Alexander, please read the bug reporting instructions - in
particular only mention one issue per bug report.

As regards 1,2,3 you can use return to open the advanced dialog
window.

As regards 4,5,6 etc. use shift-tab and tab to navigate around
(see bug 95844)