130121 - Problems with keyboard accessibility in Installer

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[K'Trina Medina]

Using the keyboard only to navigate through the Activation screen

Windows: 
- Could not close out of Readme file.
- Losing focus of the window when I used the back button to get to the previous
window. Could not get the focus back on the window.

Mac (OS X and OS 9.x):
- Could not navigate through the Install Wizard without the use of my mouse.

Linux:
- Could not navigate through the "Select a directory" screen.
- When I opened the "Proxy Settings" window the focus was still on the
Installation window behind it.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

over to Curt assuming windows is the one that matters most. Nominating for 
triage.

Comment 2

[Syd Logan]

Aaron, are we required to be accessible in the native installers? Would you
nsbeta1+ the bug, or not? How important is Mac and Linux?

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

bug 56299,123306,123307 shows more keyboard problems with win32 installer

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

The Windows keyboard issues are of greatest concern, because that is where we
are targeting Section 508 compliance in the near term.

* The mnemonic key failures aren't nsbeta1+ worthy, if the user can still tab to
those items.

* Not being able to close the readme file - does Alt+F4 not work? If not, that
should be filed as a separate bug and marked Sec508, and should be marked nsbeta1+.

* Losing focus when using back button - if this is true, it is a Sec508 issue,
and should be marked nsbeta1+.

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

WIndows problems are WFM, so nsbeta1- unless they come back

Comment 6

[Scott Gifford]

On the 1.4 release for Linux, the installer keyboard navigation issues I see are:

  * Can't select setup type
  * "Change Destination Directory" dialog navigates bizarrely, although I can
type in an absolute pathname.

Comment 7

[Aaron Leventhal]

Does someone from Sun want to take this to fix the installer issues under GTK?

Comment 8

[Andrew Schultz]

> - Could not navigate through the "Select a directory" screen.

the installer is invoking the gtk filepicker dialog.  There's very little we can
do without writing our own.  the gtk2 file dialog works better.  porting the
installer to gtk2 is bug 183389

> - When I opened the "Proxy Settings" window the focus was still on the
> Installation window behind it.

this worksforme.

Comment 9

[Aaron Leventhal]

This is WORKSFORME on Windows.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

with bug 183389 fixed is there anything left to be done?

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Does someone from Sun want to take this to fix the installer issues under GTK?

andrew, does GTK=gtk1?  iirc gtk1 has been mentioned in some core bugs as being obsolete.

Comment 12

[Andrew Schultz]

right.  bug 183389 probably fixed things here on linux, but we aren't actually shipping an installer on trunk.  not sure what helped on windows.

resolving WFM