763211 - HTML accesskeys don't work on Mac OS X with Italian keyboard layout if focus in on input fields or text areas

Status: REOPENED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Initially I opened bug 736837 because HTML acceskeys didn't work anymore on Mac OS X, then I found bug 728103 and I realized that the problem is slightly different: if focus is on a text area CTRL+ALT+letter simply writes the letter and doesn't trigger the accesskey.

Test case: 
https://localize.mozilla.org/en_GB/bugzilla_components/en_GB.po/translate/?

CTRL+ALT+k is supposed to take you to the next item, if focus is on the input field you simply write "k".

Not sure about dependency of this bug to bug 728103.

Comment 1

[Tantek Çelik]

Related: bug 736837

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Attachment: Minimal test case

Still happening 62.0a1 (2018-05-25) (64 bit)

Comment 4

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

I could not reproduce this on Nightly.
And I got following range from mozregress,

10:23.23 INFO: First good revision: 5866d6685849311f057e7e229b9ace63a2641c29 (2018-05-30)
10:23.23 INFO: Last bad revision: 89d79c2258be1c420153e1adc54338b0165fc88e (2018-05-29)
10:23.23 INFO: Pushlog:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=89d79c2258be1c420153e1adc54338b0165fc88e&tochange=5866d6685849311f057e7e229b9ace63a2641c29

I guess bug 1464016 fix this.

Francesco, is this still happening on your side? Thanks!

Comment 5

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

No, the attached test case still doesn't work for me on macOS, on both my normal profile (with ui.key.contentAccess = 2) and a clean one. In both cases, Firefox writes a question mark.

If you open the test case in Chrome, CTRL+ALT+m will open the link instead.

Comment 6

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

I still could not reproduce this, even with ui.key.contentAccess = 2. I am using QWERTY English keyboard layout.
Which keyboard layout are you using? Does it work if you use QWERTY English keyboard layout? Thanks!

Comment 7

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

I'm using the Italian keyboard layout. And, indeed, if I switch to English it works with ctrl+m.

Comment 8

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #7)

I'm using the Italian keyboard layout.

Yeah, I could also reproduce with Italian keyboard layout. Thanks for this information, Francesco!