Support keyboard-only navigation (usability)

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| --- | --- | | Bugzilla Link | 528960 | | Status | NEW | | Importance | P3 normal | | Reported | Dec 19, 2017 10:38 EDT | | Modified | Dec 29, 2023 14:48 EDT | | Reporter | Mat Hansen |

Description

Currently is pretty much impossible to navigate and work with an EMFForms view using keyboard navigation only. This can be very frustrating for power users. In my opinion, we lack the following features to support a coherent keyboard navigation experience:

• setting a default focus control which gets the initial focus when the view is rendered the first time
• the configuration of a custom tab order (which needs to be nested for sub-controls like the table view)
• focus highlighting support, right now it is very difficult if not impossible to visually identify the control which has the focus (might also be a theming issue)
• shortcuts for toggling helper popups like the date picker
• action shortcuts (like adding/removing entries to/from a tree/table)
• consistent keybindings for changing the selection within trees, tables, categorizations etc.

In our makeithappen demo, for example, the user is stuck right after opening the DateTimeControlRenderer popup, even when closing it using the mouse tabbing out does not work either.

We probably would need to provide some framework support to support those use-cases within custom controls as well. Finally, it would be nice if the user could easy overwrite those keybindings using some sort of registry.

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Jan 17, 2020 16:16

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Jan 07, 2022 15:15

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Dec 29, 2023 14:48

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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