#10577 closed enhancement (fixed)
TabContainer: support keyboard selection of first / last tab in TabContainer
| Reported by: | MartinPacker | Owned by: | bill |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | 1.6 |
| Component: | Dijit | Version: | 1.4.0 |
| Keywords: | keys keystrokes keyboard access a11y | Cc: | becky |
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description (last modified by bill)
I note there are scroll left and scroll right keys supported for TabContainer.
The documentation suggests there AREN'T "select first" and "select last" keys.
In my application (essentially a tabbed GIF viewer) I could use that. Today I have buttons I added below the TabContainer to achieve the same effect.)
In 1.4 I note the enhanced tab strip but this isn't a part of it.
Change History (9)
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by peller
- Cc becky added
- Keywords a11y added
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by bill
- Description modified (diff)
- Summary changed from Support keyboard selection of first / last tab in TabContainer to TabContainer: support keyboard selection of first / last tab in TabContainer
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by MartinPacker
No, I don't find Home and End keys to work. And they're not documented, either. So I suspect they really DON'T work. Home and End keys would, in fact, be my preferred solution. (I, too, don't want to lose screen real estate to these putative buttons.)
BTW, I really appreciate the "fixed height" nature of the tabs in 1.4.0. (I used to try to calculate the size of multiple rows of tabs previously.)
I'm about to open another ticket on the drop-down list - to enhance it for first-character navigation. (I'm not sure that's doable, mind.)
comment:4 follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 5 years ago by bill
- Milestone changed from tbd to 1.5
- Owner set to bill
You are right, HOME and END keys don't work currently, but that functionality should be simple to add, I'll do it for the next release.
comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 4 Changed 5 years ago by MartinPacker
Replying to bill:
You are right, HOME and END keys don't work currently, but that functionality should be simple to add, I'll do it for the next release.
Thanks! I'd be happy to test.
comment:6 Changed 5 years ago by peller
- Milestone changed from 1.5 to 1.6
comment:7 Changed 5 years ago by bill
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
(In [22520]) Make home/end key navigate to (and click) first/last tab button, similar to how left/right arrow keys navigate to next/previous tab buttons. Wasn't sure whether I should make keyboard do an animation, but I didn't since we'll likely drop the JS animation in favor of CSS animation in the future. Fixes #10577.
comment:8 Changed 5 years ago by bill
comment:9 Changed 5 years ago by becky
I tested with FIrefox 3.6.8 and JAWS 11 - works great! Thanks, Bill.
I can see adding HOME and END key support, but you want to actually have special buttons taking up screen real estate? It seems like a user can easily navigate to the first/last tab by using the drop down menu (listing all the tabs)