Closed
Bug 259307
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
Tab key behaviour is not consistent between platforms
Categories
(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 239175
People
(Reporter: bdeb, Assigned: aaronlev)
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 When using the Tab key to move between locations in a page, the resulting behaviour is very different on the Mac than on other platforms (Win32, Linux). Focus seems restricted to text boxes only, whereas on other platforms, focus moves to buttons and links as well. This incompatibility is quite disconcerting for cross-platform users. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to washingtonpost.com 2. Click in the 'Search' box 3. Hit Tab Actual Results: Focus moves to an 'Entertainment guide' text box at the bottom of the page. Further tabs take you around the other text boxes on the page, then to the address bar. Expected Results: Judging by the linux version (which seems sensible), focus should have moved to the 'go' button, followed by the links on the left-hand-side of the page.
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Comment 1•20 years ago
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(In reply to comment #0) > When using the Tab key to move between locations in a page, the resulting > behaviour is very different on the Mac than on other platforms (Win32, Linux). > Focus seems restricted to text boxes only, whereas on other platforms, focus > moves to buttons and links as well. I now find, courtesy of: http://sidesh0w.com/weblog/2004/09/01/tabindex_osx_firefox/ that this behaviour can be changed to the linux/windows default by changing accessibility.tabfocus to 7. Shouldn't this be set by default?
Comment 2•20 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239175 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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