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Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

#22886 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)

Cannot use <tab> to go from Tags' input field to its Add button

Reported by: daedalon's profile Daedalon Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Accessibility Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description (last modified by SergeyBiryukov)

In the edit post page under wp-admin there's the Tags widget with an input textfield, a submit button and a "Choose from the most used tags" textlink, in that particular order in both HTML and in the RTL reading order.

When the browser's focus is in the input textfield, as a user I expect that pressing the <tab> key moves the focus to the following item, the submit button, enabling the workflow of pressing <tab><space> to add a tag. In at least IE8 and any versions of Pale Moon / Firefox I've tried so far this isn't possible: the focus is moved to the textlink instead.

The technical reason for this is that the submit button has 'tabindex="3"'. Removing that tabindex solves the issue on Pale Moon / Firefox, but not knowing the reasons it was originally added, a different approach might be better.

Summary of issues:

  1. Fix the <tab> handling in the Tags widget in wp-admin edit post screen by either
    1.a. removing the 'tabindex="3"' from the submit button in the Tags wp-admin edit post widget,
    1.b. change the tabindex's value to be such that it works on the most used browsers, or
    1.c. fix the functionality in JavaScript.

Change History (3)

#1 @Daedalon
12 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

This appears to be fixed in 3.5 and has thus affected only versions 3.4.2 and earlier.

#2 @helenyhou
12 years ago

  • Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
  • Resolution changed from fixed to worksforme

#3 @SergeyBiryukov
12 years ago

  • Component changed from Taxonomy to Accessibility
  • Description modified (diff)
  • Resolution changed from worksforme to duplicate

Fixed in [21311]. Marking as a duplicate of #21340.

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