277198 - Radio buttons do not Arrow and Tab improperly on forms.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[jcaesar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Each GROUP of Radio Buttons should be Tabbed, NOT EVERY Radio Button.
Arrows should allow user to highlight radio buttons and move within the group
(since their Radios and not Checkboxes, the highlight moves).
Currently, if you wish to fill out a form sans mouse, not only must you tab thru
every choice, you also have to press the spacebar to select the correct one.
You should be able to Tab to a group, Arrow to your choice and Tab to the next
group. This makes it easier to highlight the "NO, I DON'T WANT JUNK MAIL" choice
on webforms and saves years of therapy on web surveys.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a webform
2. Try to fill out the form keyboard-only like an intelligent person instead of
a newbie despately clinging to a mouse that he can't even navigate with anyway.
3.

Actual Results:  
I almost wanted to reach for a mouse!
All the extra tabbing and spacing threw off my groove and slowed form use severely.

Expected Results:  
Tab between Radio groups.
Arrow between choices.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

That part of the bug report form that says not to report bugs on builds more
than two weeks old without reproducing them in a current build? Sometimes
there's a reason for that: not only is 1.0 a couple of months old, but most of
the backend stuff for it dates back to a branch from last April. 1.0 tabs to
every radio button, yesterday's build works as you expected.