Reduce the number of tabstops in message panel

[jo-so]

Description

When clicking on a word in the message panel and using TAB key to go to the input field, you have to pass many points, before you reach.

Steps to reproduce

• open a room
• mark a word as you would do for copying
• press TAB key

It would be helpful, if I could quickly jump to the input field. Maybe you could look at web.whatsapp.com. They made the TAB key jumps only between the room filter and the input field. For example, selecting a room is done much faster with filtering and Return key than using TAB to jump through the list of rooms.

Version information

• Platform: web
• Browser: Firefox 65.0a1 (nightly)
• OS: Debian
• URL: private Riot 0.17.3

[lampholder]

This would need to be considered in terms of not degrading accessibility/compaitibility with screenreaders etc. I wonder how web.whatsapp.com handles that.

[jo-so]

Tom Lant hat am Do 15. Nov, 05:14 (-0800) geschrieben:

This would need to be considered in terms of not degrading accessibility/compaitibility with screenreaders etc. I wonder how web.whatsapp.com handles that.

Yes. That's a good point. But are so many tabstops helpful for screenreaders? Does the Riot team has someone who's responsible for accessibility?

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