276218 - Download manager is not fully navigable through keyboard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256243

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Ricardo Stuven]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

Its impossible to reach the buttons using the keyboard only.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Download manager
2. Try to focus the "Clear" button using the keyboard.




Expected Results:  
Focus through all widgets using tab key

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

why not use the provided accesskey (alt-a)

I'm not sure how important the tab order is, since if you have a huge list of
downloads, its a heck of a lot of tab presses.  The keyboard shortcut should be
enough in my book, but I'll let aaronl comment first.

Comment 2

[Ricardo Stuven]

(In reply to comment #1)
> why not use the provided accesskey (alt-a)

Ok, i had not seen it (yes, i'm without mouse and a bit blind :), but that was
just an example. For instance, if there are more downloads than what the visible
area shows: i've tried with tab and arrow keys, but the list is not scrolling.
(btw, the same is happening in the Extensions manager, but maybe this is for
another bug report).

Comment 3

[Robin Green]

Confirming. A better example of this bug is:

It is not possible to click on the "remove" link for a download without using a
mouse or mouse emulation.

This is on Firefox 1.0 and also a recent build:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041227 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

It should be possible to tab to the cleanup button to activate it as well.
Screen reader users won't generally discover the button at all, let alone the
Alt+A mnemonic unless they can tab to the button and hear about it.

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256243 ***