1688714 - Keyboard navigation: `Show/Hide’ checkbox inconsistency in calendar-list selection

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, defect)

Description

[Valentin Villenave]

Open the Tasks tab with Ctrl-Shift-D.
Hitting Tab a number of times (8 by my count) brings you to the task-tree-filtergroup panel (i.e. “Show… > Current Tasks”, etc.).
Hitting Tab once or twice then brings you to the “Calendar” list header; the list is expanded by default and hitting Tab once more brings you to the first item in that list (the first, and by default only, calendar: typically named “Home”).

Once that list-item is selected and has the focus, pressing Space then allows you to toggle the Show or Hide checkbox inside. Nothing out of the ordinary here.

Pressing Tab once more brings the focus onto that specific check box (the eye icon), named “Hide Home”.

• If you press 'Space' only once, the icon changes (the check box is now named “Show Home”), but nothing happens.
• You need to press Space once more and now that particular calendar is indeed hidden.
• Ditto if you press it once again: the eye icon comes back (and the check box is named “Hide” again), but the calendar is actually still hidden.
• If you press Shift-Tab while having pressed `Space’ just one time (or three, or an odd number of times), the focus comes back on the parent element (the whole list item). But, surprise: now pressing Space on it will change absolutely nothing (not the icon nor the behavior). I suspect it’s because it’s looking for the “Show” checkbox whilst the “Hide” checkbox is actually displayed, or the other way around.

Anyway, this is a minor inconsistency (not the first wrt Calendar/Tasks and keyboard navigation) but it does have the potential to confuse some users.

Comment 1

[Alex ARNAUD]

I'm not sure to understand the problem you're reporting here.

Here after hitting space multiple time on a calendar name, hitting space now does nothing. Is it what you want to report?

Comment 2

[Valentin Villenave]

(In reply to Alex ARNAUD from comment #1)

I'm not sure to understand the problem you're reporting here.

The inconsistency I reported actually happens when the "wrong" element, so to speak, is focused.
If you're on the "calendar name", as you say (i.e. the list item), then there's nothing wrong indeed.

When, however you Tab just one more time and the focus is now on the "Show/Hide" icon, hit Space
and then Shift-Tab to the parent item again, that's when weird things start to happen.