Close Button Breaks in Customizer After Refresh

[miqrogroove]

Steps to reproduce (keyboard only):

1. Open the theme customizer.
2. Tab past the top buttons.
3. Press F5.
4. Now try to use the Close or Cancel button.

Expected result: Should be able to Close or Cancel.

Actual result: The button can still be clicked, but it is broken for keyboard usage.

Found in 3.5-RC2-22961 using Chrome 23 and WinXP.

Workaround: Press Alt + Left several times to return to the Themes page.

Is this reproducible in 3.4.2?

I assumed this was a new accessibility feature of 3.5?

I couldn't figure out how to get to the customizer by keyboard in 3.4.2. I can action the customizer link, but focus moves to the preview pane and no amount of tabs seems to get me to the customizer controls.

Reducing severity as it seems unlikely the user would need to refresh the page.

22682.diff​ forces the redirect - fixing the issue. Before this, if you edited a field and closed without saving, then went back into the customizer, all of your changes were lost anyway - so it doesn't look as though we're losing anything by forcing a redirect all of the time. Koopersmith may think differently. :-)

22682.diff​ isn't testing well for me. If I use the keyboard to navigate to the Customizer, hit Enter on the close button, and then try to go back to the Customizer by keyboard, it wont load. I can't reproduce that problem by mouse, and the problem goes away when I remove the patch or disable script debug.

Replying to miqrogroove:

22682.diff​ isn't testing well for me. If I use the keyboard to navigate to the Customizer, hit Enter on the close button, and then try to go back to the Customizer by keyboard, it wont load. I can't reproduce that problem by mouse, and the problem goes away when I remove the patch or disable script debug.

Yep, good catch. I was able to replicate what you're seeing. This is a weird little bug.