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Bug 56850 - [A11Y] Tab is caught by text areas and tables
Summary: [A11Y] Tab is caught by text areas and tables
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: javaee
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DD Editor (show other bugs)
Version: 4.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Trey Spiva
URL:
Keywords: A11Y
Depends on: 56920
Blocks:
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Reported: 2005-03-23 11:41 UTC by zikmund
Modified: 2009-11-02 11:17 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description zikmund 2005-03-23 11:41:56 UTC 
Build 200503221900

1) Have a WebApp
2) Open web.xml | General
3) Select Description
4) Press TAB (or Shift-TAB)
5) ERROR:
TAB and Shift-TAB is caught by Description's text area. No way how to traverse
using keyboard.

Note:
Same happens to all text areas in visual editors.
Standard Ctrl-TAB is used for traversing editor panes.
Comment 1 zikmund 2005-03-23 11:49:25 UTC 
Tables catch TAB and Shift-TAB too.
Comment 2 Milan Kuchtiak 2005-03-24 12:03:28 UTC 
Fixed for text areas (description text areas).

However, I think the Ctrl-TAB is not proper key for switching between top
components in editor.
The Ctrl-TAB is the standard key-binding for getting out of Swing component.

The same problem (in IDE) has properties editor table.

The dd-editor is based on xml/multiview. It's an API intended for visual editors
over XML files. There are no constraints for Swing components used in editor and
we can not require clients to modify all JTAbles, TextAreas etc.

I am re
Comment 3 Milan Kuchtiak 2005-03-24 12:04:45 UTC 
I've created an issue 56920 to core/windows.
Comment 4 zikmund 2005-03-24 12:41:16 UTC 
I have discussed it with Petr Blaha and we agree that this issue can be
downgraded to P3.
User can workaround this problem by using Ctrl-Shift-Tab or turn off
functionality of Ctrl-Tab for documents switching.

It would be good to have a special table/text area component which can use Tab
as Ctrl-Tab is used now. Since it is not doable for JTable in 4.1 timeframe I
set TM to future.
Comment 5 Milan Kuchtiak 2005-11-02 13:24:42 UTC 
The issue was fixed for text areas in web.xml/ejb-jar.xml, but still not for tables.
Comment 6 Petr Jiricka 2006-07-31 16:29:16 UTC 
Assigning to Erno. Need to reevaluate.
Comment 7 Erno Mononen 2006-08-01 09:53:54 UTC 
Not fixed. Need to override the focus policy of the tables used in web/ejb-jar 
edtors.
Comment 8 Erno Mononen 2007-08-20 14:39:22 UTC 
No changes since last evaluation, will be fixed for 6.0 if time permits.
Comment 9 pslechta 2008-04-02 15:56:49 UTC 
The tab traversal works for me in NB 6.0.1.
Should we close this bug?
Comment 10 pslechta 2008-04-02 16:46:51 UTC 
Tables still consume the tab traversal.
Sorry for wrong previous comment.
Comment 11 Jiri Prox 2008-04-11 01:20:30 UTC 
moving opened issues from TM <= 6.1 to TM=Dev
Comment 12 Trey Spiva 2008-11-18 22:52:57 UTC 
moving this issue to later
Comment 13 Quality Engineering 2009-11-02 11:17:57 UTC 
NetBeans.org Migration: changing resolution from LATER to WONTFIX