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Keyboard focus is not logical on Edit Page
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Description

Steps to Reproduce:

  • Go to a page
  • Navigate to Edit source and hit enter
  • Check if keyboard focus is logical while navigating on the screen using tab

Actual Results:

  • Keyboard focus not logical on page

Expected Results:

  • Keyboard focus order should be "Left to Right" and "Top to bottom"

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

Event Timeline

Change 598518 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bkudiess-msft; owner: Bkudiess-msft):
[mediawiki/core@master] Fixes Focus order on Edit Page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/598518

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I was thinking about this one. I suspect the only reason that the tabindex is there, is to ensure that people can quickly tab to the editor. So maybe we can just replace this by adding autofocus attribute (which didn't exist back in the early days of MediaWiki) to the textarea @Volker_E ?