Open Bug 204402 (firekey) Opened 21 years ago Updated 2 years ago

[meta] Make Firefox accessible with the keyboard

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect, P5)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

People

(Reporter: djst, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: access, meta) 

This is a meta bug for keyboard accessibility issues in Mozilla Firebird.
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QA Contact: asa
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Keywords: meta
Summary: [meta] Make Mozilla Firebird accessible with the keyboard → [meta] Make Firefox accessible with the keyboard
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Alias: firekey
QA Contact: bugzilla
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Assignee: firefox → aaronleventhal
Component: General → Keyboard Navigation
QA Contact: bugzilla → jruderman
Priority: -- → P1
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*** Bug 279135 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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QA Contact: jruderman → keyboard.navigation
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Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.
Assignee: aaronleventhal → nobody
Is anyone aware of a bug about the Firefox/Aurora/Nightly "button" not being keyboard accessible?

Maybe I just don't know the key combination to it.

I tried using <Alt>+<Left arrow> but that doesn't seem to work.
(In reply to alex_mayorga from comment #3)
> Is anyone aware of a bug about the Firefox/Aurora/Nightly "button" not being
> keyboard accessible?
> 
> Maybe I just don't know the key combination to it.
> 
> I tried using <Alt>+<Left arrow> but that doesn't seem to work.

It is correct that the Firefox/Aurora/Nightly button is not keyboard accessible. You can use the Alt-menu to access the same features that are present in the Firefox button.
Jared,

Is that "by design" or should I file a bug about it?
(In reply to alex_mayorga from comment #5)
> Jared,
> 
> Is that "by design" or should I file a bug about it?

It is by design. There is strong pre-existing muscle memory for the Alt-menu, especially with keyboard-only users, so there is no desire in breaking that as well as no subsequent reason with adding duplicate functionality.
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Decreasing the priority as no update for the last 2 years on this bug.
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage 
about the priority meaning.
Priority: P1 → P5
Severity: normal → S3
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