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Bug 173842 - [A11Y] Plugin manager almost completely unaccessible from keyboard
Summary: [A11Y] Plugin manager almost completely unaccessible from keyboard
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Autoupdate (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All Mac OS X
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: dlipin
URL:
Keywords: A11Y
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-10-06 10:31 UTC by Michael Nazarov
Modified: 2009-10-15 08:30 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Nazarov 2009-10-06 10:31:41 UTC 
Product Version: NetBeans IDE 6.8 Beta (Build 200910020947)
Java: 1.6.0_16; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 14.2-b01
System: Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86; Cp1251; ru_RU (nb)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start IDE.
2. Open plugin manager with Alt+t g

Try to use Tab for navigation. No way. So navigation throw the tab-pages is impossible.
Accessible features are: Reload, Close and Help because their buttons have mnemonics
for Alt+<key> usage.
Comment 1 dlipin 2009-10-06 10:42:34 UTC 
I can move the navigation over tabs using Ctrl-Tab pressed several times. Afaik mnemonics is not used much with tabs.
Comment 2 Michael Nazarov 2009-10-06 10:45:55 UTC 
Ctrl+Tab doesn't work fine.
I don't mean mnemonics really required for tabs, just described situation.
Problems might be because plugins list is empty and this prevents navigation
somehow. But for filled lists it works bad as well.
Comment 3 Jaromir Uhrik 2009-10-09 13:55:16 UTC 
Switching among tabs in the tabbed pane should be available by Ctrl+PgUp/Ctrl+PgDown. See details how to navigate in
tabs at jlf guidelines:
http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed2/book/Appendix.A15.html
Comment 4 Michael Nazarov 2009-10-12 14:21:37 UTC 
This is not P3 for sure. Ctrl+Arrow key doesn't work.
Arrow key actually do not work as well, because there is no
way set focus to tab from keyboard and in case focus set using
mouse it move out after single arrow key press.
Comment 5 Jaromir Uhrik 2009-10-12 15:30:08 UTC 
It works fine on my Mac:
Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 200910100201)
Java: 1.5.0_20; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_20-141
System: Mac OS X version 10.5.8 running on i386; MacRoman; en_US (nb)

It works for me the following way:
-Ctrl+DownArrow Moves from tab to its associated content pane
-Ctrl+UpArrow 	Moves from content pane to its associated tab
-Ctrl+PgDn 	Moves to next content pane (changing the corresponding tab)
-Ctrl+PgUp 	Moves to previous content pane (changing the corresponding tab)

The only shortcut that is working differently (is doing additional work is):
-Left/Right Arrow   - Navigates through tabs + sets focus to the split pane (which helps users to work directly with the
component that is usually necessary to be focused by user - this is not standard behavior, but is as designed; users are
forced to use rather Ctrl+PgDn/Up to switch among tabs).
Comment 6 Michael Nazarov 2009-10-15 07:29:15 UTC 
-Ctrl+DownArrow Moves from tab to its associated content pane
-Ctrl+UpArrow 	Moves from content pane to its associated tab

Do not work on Windows XP.
Comment 7 Michael Nazarov 2009-10-15 08:30:52 UTC 
Will file issues against each key-combination problem.