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Please see the design pattern for keyboard interaction for the button role: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/#button Note that both Enter and Space should activate a button. None of the buttons on http://orion.eclipse.org/ can be activated with the space key (they can be activated with the Enter key). This is mostly a problem because the screen reader says "... button. To activate, press space bar."
Actually, this type of "sign in" control is handled inconsistently in the community. On facebook.com, the Log In button is an <input type="submit"> (which has role="button") and the Sign Up button is a <button> (with type="submit"?). Both will activate on space bar (and enter). On google.com, the Sign in button is just a link <a> that looks like a button but does not behave like one (its role is link). It does *not* activate on space (only on enter). Here is the design pattern for link: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/#link So we need to decide which semantics we prefer, or maybe do a little survey of respected web sites and see if there's any sort of consensus.
(In reply to comment #0) > None of the buttons on http://orion.eclipse.org/ can be activated with the > space key (they can be activated with the Enter key). I assume you mean none of the buttons on login page. Most buttons do handle space key (via the command service).
Sorry, yes. I mean just the login page. The 3 sign-in buttons, and the twitter/news buttons do not activate on space.
The point is that if something has role="button", then it should support space. However, these things could quite easily be links, and then they only need to support Enter. So I am changing the title of this bug to say that they should have role="link" instead of role="button". There is also an inconsistency that needs to be investigated: the "Sign in with associated Google account" already has the 'link' context menu (i.e. Open link in new tab/window, Bookmark/Save/Copy link, etc) when you either right-click on it or type Shift+F10 when it has focus. However, "Orion" and "Mozilla Persona" do not have the 'link' context menu - but they should.
By the way, the twitter & news links are fine as-is. The are anchors (<a>...</a>) so they automatically have role="link", they are activated with Enter, and they have the 'link' context menu. No change there.
Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see: https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html
