Improving WYSIWYG Accessibility with tab key

[justingreerbbi]

Refer to forum post at ​https://wordpress.org/support/topic/allow-for-tab-key-to-select-visual-tab-or-html-tab-under-wp-adminpostphppost.

The idea would be to press and hold tab key while working in the editor to switch between visual and HTML type editor.

[afercia]

Reading the forum post, I'm not sure I fully understand the issue.

There is no way to Select Visual or HTML using the tab key.

Actually, there is: move focus to the "Visual" or "Text" buttons and press Enter

This is really annoying because the WordPress Visual box changes consistently making me have to move my mouse position to different coordinates wasting time.

Maybe you mean you would like the caret position to be in a consistent place (i.e. where you placed it) when switching editors? I think it's a bit hard to implement this but there are people who can answer far better than me. cc @azaozz @iseulde

Is there any way that I can just hold tab to select Visual or HTML?

I'm afraid there isn't, since the Tab key is needed to navigate through elements.

[visualtabwantsandneeds]

Actually, there is: move focus to the "Visual" or "Text" buttons and press Enter

Can you explain this better. I don't follow.

Thanks.

[afercia]

Replying to visualtabwantsandneeds:

Actually, there is: move focus to the "Visual" or "Text" buttons and press Enter

Can you explain this better. I don't follow.

Just use the Tab key to navigate through the focusable elements and once you're on the "Visual" or "Text" buttons press Enter and the editor switches. If you're a Mac user, you might want to check your System Preferences and allow the Tab key to focus all the focusable elements.

[afercia]

Going to close this, please do feel free to reopen if if you think it is still relevant.