Closed Bug 439599 Opened 17 years ago Closed 6 years ago

SVG: keyboard navigation broken for arrow keys

Categories

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
SVG
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: jay, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: regression, testcase)

keyboard navigation had been working for some years? well more than one anyway... today I used keyboard navigation successfully with html at http://www.peepo.com alt + arrows, however whilst this had worked well with SVG in the past at http://www.peepo.co.uk today it does not. reduced testcase see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388146 and there will be a closed bug, possibly filed by me requesting implementation. Please note this is not part of the SVG 1.1 spec but has been implemented by ff and opera. due to difficulties with mozilla developers and very slow progress I have not been using mozilla or filing bugs for over 6 months. sorry but cannot provide better regression details.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1a1pre) Gecko/2008060502 Minefield/3.1a1pre
Is this problem only on OS X, or do you also see it on Windows and Linux?
peepo, alt-left-arrow has been mapped to Back (in browser history), and alt-right-arrow has been mapped to Forward, since at least Firefox 2. As far as I'm aware, tab and shift-tab are the only way to navigate through the links in an SVG document using the keyboard. Are you sure you had the arrow keys working for navigation?
Jonathan #3 checked today, too long ago to be sure of regression, however can confirm that alt-arrow-any navigates svg in html but not vanilla svg, this breaks user expectations and conventions. use peepo urls above
Summary: SVG: keyboard navigation broken → SVG: keyboard navigation broken for arrow keys
The patch for bug 554635 landed on the 29th. Did this make any difference?
No answer to comment 5. Feel free to reopen if this still happens.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
probably this bug should be part of a wider effort to implement keyboard navigation in OS X. #3 alt-left-arrow has been mapped to Back, true for html this works, but at least in os x once one visits an SVG page. oops! one is stuck. obviously as with html, one also expects to be able to navigate within the page as well. had thought there was an about:config for keyboard navigation, but cannot find reference, neither with search: tab, keyboard, navigation .
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: INCOMPLETE → ---

looks like peepo is no more but we do have pretty good keyboard navigation via tabindex these days.

Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago → 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE

peepo is well and healthy and in active development, thank you!

11 years later I can confirm:

due to difficulties with mozilla developers and very slow progress I have not been using mozilla or filing bugs for over 6 months.
sorry but cannot provide better regression details.

The links to peepo in comment 0 are non functional for me.

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