425018 - Focus not visible in Account Central

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1589005

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Rod Whiteley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008032502 Thunderbird/3.0a1pre

The links in Account Central do not indicate when they have focus, making it difficult to navigate Account Central with only the keyboard.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select an account, so that Account Central is visible
2. Press Tab, to move focus to Account Central
Actual Results:  
Nothing appears to have focus, but you can press Return to action the top link.

Expected Results:  
The link that has focus should indicate it in some way

In accountCentral.css, perhaps add:

.acctCentralLinkText:focus {
-moz-outline-offset: 1px;
outline: 1px dotted highlight;
}

Comment 1

[ovidiu]

css works like that and tabbing becomes visible. I'd add !important ..

.acctCentralLinkText:focus {
-moz-outline-offset: 1px !important;
outline: 1px dotted highlight !important;
}

Comment 2

[ovidiu]

this is a minor if not trivial issue, specifically for intense keyboard users. A matter of UI tweak. But I'd say a style should be there. 

also, is this "access"? 

Comment 3

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

the existing account central is mostly being replaced by bug 489999 however this issue could still be fixed especially for the places the new account central isn't touching (rss and news)

Comment 5

[:aceman]

I know the Account central is probably "more cool" without any focus outlines, but the navigability with keyboard is also important.

Can you guys decide on the UI here and maybe accept/adapt the proposed css?
Bug 489999 is nowhere near landing in this decade.

Comment 6

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

It doesn't show a focus outline but the elements (links) change to blue when I tab through the pane. This is on all platforms for me. Isn't this enough? We could add a focus ring but the link highlighting should be enough, I think.

Comment 7

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Like Richard said, the links change colour when gaining focus, and if it's not enough we can implement the "Firefox" highlight.
On a side note, the Account Central is gonna get a tiny refresh with Photon Icons soon in bug 1559867, which will consequentially improve the focus effect as the SVG icons will change colour alongside the text.

P.S.: "more cool" is not a thing and if someone ever used it as a reason to propose something, they should apologize by doing 1000 push-ups during the next staff meeting :P