Bug 403497 - Links in dropdowns not responding to space or enter key
Summary: Links in dropdowns not responding to space or enter key
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Orion (Archived)
Classification: ECD
Component: Client (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Gabriel Luong CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2013-03-15 12:30 EDT by Susan McCourt CLA
Modified: 2015-05-05 14:51 EDT (History)
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Description Susan McCourt CLA 2013-03-15 12:30:30 EDT 
Creating this bug to separate it from bug 394786 comment 8.

This problem exists in Orion 2.0, but was working before that.
Originally we hooked space/enter key handling on all Orion command items.
In bug 399004 and before, we removed some of the special handling to just let the browser "do the right thing" with buttons and links, making sure that the dropdown gave them focus.

Anchor tags should respond to enter key when they have focus, but they don't respond to space by default.  We should add space handling.  

I'm not sure why the enter key is not working, the keystroke may be eaten elsewhere.  I think we should understand that a little better before we hook both enter/space on the anchor tag.
Comment 1 Susan McCourt CLA 2013-03-15 12:30:52 EDT 
This needs to get fixed in M1.
Comment 2 John Arthorne CLA 2015-05-05 14:51:51 EDT 
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