When the GotoPage edit spinbox control has the keyboard focus the Esc and Tab key move focus to the deck title. The only way to access items that follow this control using the keyboard is to Tab into the toolbox and use the left arrow key to move backwards through the list of items up to the GotoPage control. Here are steps to reproduce: 1) open sidebar Navigator deck 2) click on Headings 3) press ESC key focus rectangle should be around deck title 4) press TAB TAB to enter helper items toolbox 5) use right arrow key to navigate to the GotoPage edit spinbox cursor blinking in edit spinbox 6) press TAB focus moves to deck title I believe better behavior would be for TAB to move to the next item in the toolbox and SHIFT TAB move to the previous item in the toolbox.
> I believe better behavior would be for TAB to move to the next item in the > toolbox and SHIFT TAB move to the previous item in the toolbox. Just to get out of this control and then the right and left arrow keys would be used to navigate the other items on the toolbox like normal.
Here is a patch for this: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/50295/
(In reply to Jim Raykowski from comment #0) > 6) press TAB > focus moves to deck title It actually moves to Headings for me. Arch Linux 64-bit Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: b8fe96f1da2c42c04a8094ca8c57d49763b7bded CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group Built on March 8th 2018
n reply to Buovjaga from comment #3) > (In reply to Jim Raykowski from comment #0) > > 6) press TAB > > focus moves to deck title > > It actually moves to Headings for me. > Thanks for the comment! You are correct. Tab actually does move focus to Headings. I must have been testing with half of the patch in place which causes Tab to move focus to the deck title. With the entire patch Tab moves to the next focusable item in the toolbox but the patch requires removing a chunk of code that didn't meet approval. I am looking for another way to do this.
reproduced with: Version 5.4.5.1 on Mac OS 10.9.5 and Version: 5.4.4.2, Build ID: 1:5.4.4~rc2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1~lo1 not reproduce with: Version 5.4.5.1 Build ID: 1:5.4.5-0ubuntu0.17.10.4 Nevertheless I have modified the patch to work without removing the code chunk.
I confirm with the patch the focus moves from spinbox to Drag mode. Arch Linux 64-bit Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 22b1d4784d02070ae1933c59cf2c9bb5a5284773 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group Built on March 10th 2018
Jim Raykowski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6d2f6f2f01a4fbf244ba16c355d2f43a2ddf671e tdf#115565 Change tab key behavior to navigate out of gotopage control It will be available in 6.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.