266928 - Address label menulist (To/Cc/Bcc) cannot Tab focus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 433107

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Andy Buckley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.8+ (20041030)

I can't seem to change whether a recipient address is being sent to in the To:,
Cc: or Bcc: field without mousing over to the little To/Cc/Bcc/... drop-down
menu and selecting the one I want.

This is an accessibility and convenient issue: a keybinding is needed...
possibly just making the (Shift-)tabbing through the recipient list focus
alternatively on that address's send-type and the address string.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click Write icon so that new message windown pops up
2. Enter a couple of recipient addresses
3. Try to change one of the addresses to be Bcc'd without using the mouse

Actual Results:  
You (or I at least) can't do it... I have to mouse over to the drop-down list.

Expected Results:  
Should have supplied an obvious behaviour which provides access to the recipient
type list, via tab-focusing for example.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Shift-tab out of the address field *does* move the focus to the label field, 
which is a "popup-internal-box" of a style that I don't think appears anywhere 
else (internal popup menu, dropdown-arrow on the left, when menu open the field 
is blank).  With the default TB theme (based on Mozilla Classic) there is no 
focus indication on those fields -- this is bug 178637 -- but pressing the down-
arrow opens the dropdown and then allows you to pick an item by scrolling or 
typing, then pressing Enter.

A nice CSS solution to this problem is available at bug 184811 -- copy the CSS 
into your userChrome.css file (you might have to create one, it goes in the 
<profile>/chrome directory).  I don't know how that looks on a Mac, but on 
Windows it makes the field more similar to a button like in Mozilla's Modern 
theme, and shows a focus indicator.

That said, the compose window is a bit of a keyboard-navigation quagmire.
xref bug 119192, bug 141459, bug 205666, bug 244512 and doubtless others.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #1)
> pressing the down-
> arrow opens the dropdown and then allows you to pick an item by scrolling or 
> typing, then pressing Enter.

It turns out that the keys are supposed to be handled even without opening the 
list -- bug 64157.  That's been fixed for a while in MailNews, but TB seems to 
have broken it; I've opened bug 267101 for that problem.

Comment 3

[Frankie]

Tbird 1.0, OSX 10.3.latest, tab & shift-tab never focus on the To/Cc/Etc
selector (which is a nonstandard widget, BTW).

Comment 4

[Frankie]

Attachment: tab only focuses the text fields

FWIW, I tried setting different values of accessibility.tabfocus in prefs.js.
It didn't do anything, AFAICT.

Comment 5

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Should be fixed in laest builds (note that "full keyboard access" has to be
turned on).

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Still present in current builds. We need a :focus CSS selector for
.menulist-compact that focus will be drawn. I'll look at this.

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

When my patch on bug 301465 will be checked-in this issue gets automatically fixed.

Comment 8

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Sounds related to bug 433107 - Drop down arrow for "To/CC/BCC/.." too close to the edge, widget doesn't show focus?

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Yes, looks like. The focus rect should be visible for each OS now. Marking as dupe of bug 433107.