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In VE table editor, cannot move cursor out of caption area using keyboard
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In VE, whilst editing a table, it is not possible to use the keyboard (tab or arrows) to move the text-cursor out of the caption-area. We currently must use the mouse.

Confirmed in Linux with both Firefox56 and Chromium62.

test at https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=User:Quiddity/sandbox&oldid=374156&veaction=edit

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Quiddity created this task.Nov 27 2017, 6:01 PM
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• Deskana triaged this task as Medium priority.Nov 28 2017, 7:35 PM
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Today I learnt tables can have captions in MediaWiki.

tstarling added a project: WCAG-Level-A.Mar 14 2018, 2:53 AM
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WCAG 2.0 SC 2.1.2 No Keyboard Trap (Level A)

tstarling unsubscribed.Mar 14 2018, 2:53 AM
DLynch subscribed.Jul 30 2018, 4:20 PM

As of T192163 this is fixed, insofar as the tab key now works to move in/out of table captions.

@Deskana: do we want to put in the work to make the arrow keys jump the selection out as well, or is tab/shift+tab sufficient?

Volker_E subscribed.Jul 31 2018, 3:59 PM

@DLynch It's insofar weird, as you can move with the up arrow key into the caption, but with down not into table cells.

DLynch added a comment.Jul 31 2018, 4:45 PM

Actually, new development, T200525 made it so that arrows will move out of it.

Esanders closed this task as Resolved.Aug 10 2018, 9:05 PM
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Resolved by T200525

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Esanders mentioned this in T201870: Cursor into and out of table captions correctly with up/down arrow.Aug 13 2018, 7:40 PM
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