27647 - Enable keyboard navigation and selection in prefs panel

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 18575

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P3)

Description

[Richard Zach]

It should be possible to navigate and change preferences entirely by keyboard. 
To this end:

1. Selecting a prefs panel (by clicking in the prefs tree) and then hitting TAB
should get you to the first widget in the panel. Shift-Tab should get you back
to the prefs tree.

2. Tab should also get you to buttons, where SPACE should work as if you clicked
on the button.  Eg: go to Advanced / Cookies. Select first radio button.  HitTAB
4 times.  Now the "View Cookies" button should be highlighted, hitting space
should open the cookie viewer.

3. If a selection widget gets focus with the mouse, Up and Down keyboard events
still go to the prefs tree: Internet Search.  Click on the search engine
selector.  Drop-down with search engine choices appears.  Now hit Up or Down. 
The selection should move, instead, the pref panel selection moves.

4. Mouse wheel prefs: If you give the selector focus with the keyboard and
change the selection, the respective prefs don't change: Advanced > Mouse Wheel.
Click on first radio button.  Hit Shift-Tab.  The selector now has focus. Hit Up
or Down to change the selection.  As the selection changes, the preferences
(radio buttons, scroll # of lines) should change.

Comment 1

[leger]

Bulk move of all Pref UI component bugs to new Preferences component.  Pref UI 
component will be deleted.

Comment 2

[verah (gone)]

Normal keyboard navigation will work; other enhancements are future. (As per 
Don Melton)

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

1 is covered by bug 18575.
2 works for me (on Windows).
3 wfm.
4 wfm, but I filed bug 64051 for another problem with that panel.

se or whoever verifies this bug: if 2/3/4 are still happening on Linux, please 
file new bugs and make bug 18575 depend on them.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18575 ***

Comment 4

[Diego]

2,3,4: wfm on linux 2000122710.
1: verified dupe of bug 18575: "cannot navigate Preference dialog using keyboard
only"