Open Bug 1571306 Opened 5 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Preferences Dialog: Unable to Navigate to Individual Preference Panels using Single Letter Keyboard Navigation

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Settings UI
Version:
68 Branch
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: elliottabarnes, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

To reproduce (tested with the NVDA screen reader, but should be the same for sightet/mouse users):

  1. Open the main Preferences dialog (Tools/Options)

  2. Place focus on the list of preference categories (General, Search, etc)

  3. If you're an NVDA user, enable Focus Mode; otherwise, skip this step

  4. As a test, press the letter "P"; at this point, Firefox should ideally place focus on the "Privacy & Security" category; however, nothing happens and focus remains where it previously was

Actual results:

Focus stayed on the previously focused category.

Expected results:

Ideally, depending on the letter pressed Firefox should jump to the first category that has the starting letter of the key that was just pressed.

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Component: Untriaged → Preferences
Severity: normal → S3
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