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Source/Schema/Design view Buttons has no mnemonics. Schema breadcrumbs items has no mnemonics, Accessible description and not reacheable with Tab traversal. The Schema/Column view Radio buttons has no accessible name and mnemonics. The Validate XML control is not a button at all (As a11y testing tool reports its empty JToolbar сontrol) and it has no Accessible name and Mnemonics. Entire editor controls has very poor visual feedback for user - we cannot see which control is now focused and can be activated from keyboard. Tab traversal for schema columns is very long. For example if opened 3 columns of data it need 15 Tabs to traverse from first column to the same column. User cannot invoke context menus in free area of columns so some of context menu commands are not avaialable (Properties, Go To Source/Schema etc.)
Can you verify whether other multi-view editors such as the source view have mneumonics (form editor)? The source/schema/design buttons are provided through a framework. When you say editor controls are you referring to the editor controls on the source editor? These would be same buttons available for a xml instance document. This is also provided by the netbeans source editor. We may need to split this bug into multiple parts as some of the answers to the above questions may require fixing in other NetBeans modules.
I check some other editors. None of them has mnemonics for Source/Schema buttons, but we have special shortcuts for switching through different view types (Alt-Shift-Right and Alt-Shift-Left). Column/Tree View buttons are specific to XML Schema document and they has no special shortcuts to access them from keyboard.
The issues raised here which should be addressed are: 1. Breadcrumbs are dynamic so it would not really be possible to use a mneumonic. But they should be reachable via tab traversal, and each element could have an accessible description (the path). 2. All columns should allow context menus for their parent.
Fixed in release55 branch. The bread crumbs were already accessible, but because the focus paiting was turned off, you couldn't see what was happening. I have restored the focus painting and added accessible names and descriptions. schema/schemaui/src/org/netbeans/modules/xml/schema/ui/basic/SchemaColumn.java; new revision: 1.1.2.22; previous revision: 1.1.2.21 wsdlui/src/org/netbeans/modules/xml/wsdl/ui/netbeans/module/WSDLColumn.java; new revision: 1.1.2.6; previous revision: 1.1.2.5 xamui/src/org/netbeans/modules/xml/xam/ui/column/Column.java; new revision: 1.1.2.3; previous revision: 1.1.2.2 xamui/src/org/netbeans/modules/xml/xam/ui/column/LinkButton.java; new revision: 1.1.2.3; previous revision: 1.1.2.2 xamui/src/org/netbeans/modules/xml/xam/ui/column/LinkPanel.java; new revision: 1.1.2.3; previous revision: 1.1.2.2
What should clicking on breadcrumb with keyboard do? Actually if I traverce to the last breadcrumb with keyboard and press enter, the column view scrolls to the last column, but focus is still in breadcrumb. If after that I click tab again the focus switch to the next element and scrolls to it.(the next element after breadcrumbs is the first column of view). So I cannot fast access column that I need.
Verified in build 060925