Open Bug 1974679 Opened 3 months ago

Treeherder eats browser shortcut keys when focused on top navigation buttons

Categories

(Tree Management :: Treeherder: Frontend, defect)

Product:
Tree Management
Component:
Treeherder: Frontend
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Accessibility Severity:s3)

Project Flags:
Accessibility Severity s3

People

(Reporter: Jamie, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: access)

STR:

  1. Open any Treeherder page; example.
  2. Focus any of the navigation buttons at the top: Treeherder, Recent notifications, Infra, Repos, Tiers, Filters, Help.
  3. Press browser shortcut keys like control+l, alt+d, control+1 (to switch tabs), alt+f (to open the File menu on Windows), etc.
    • Expected: The browser shortcut key should work.
    • Actual: Zilch. Nada. Nothing.

The only browser shortcut keys that work are the ones the browser reserves always: control+w, control+t, control+tab, control+shift+tab and maybe some others I'm not aware of.

As a screen reader user and thus a heavy keyboard user, this is really, really frustrating. Moreover, it keeps biting me over and over again, even though I've known about it for ages and should have gotten used to working around it by now. Muscle memory is an interesting thing. :)

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