Special:Preferences tab/section navigation hints are missing
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	Jul 13 2023, 5:07 PM

Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

Visit Special:Preferences
Use the tab key to navigate to the first preference tab (desktop) or section (mobile)

What happens?:

No navigation hint is displayed before tabbing into the tabs (desktop) or sections (mobile)

What should have happened instead?:

A hint message should be displayed before tabbing into the first tab (desktop) or section (mobile)

Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
Code changed in 4aa9c929102f4e162c242d647b74523f85363b22 mistakenly rewrote tabIndex to sectionIndex
Code added in 4aa9c929102f4e162c242d647b74523f85363b22, but didn't add the message to json file

Details

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Special:Preferences fix broken navigation hints	mediawiki/core	master	+21 -8

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		None	T349553 [EPIC] Moderator Tools Maintenance Work
Resolved		Samwalton9-WMF	T338040 [Epic] Q1 FY 2023-24 Moderator Tools Maintenance Work
Resolved	BUG REPORT	jsn.sherman	T341816 Special:Preferences tab/section navigation hints are missing

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Func created this task.Jul 13 2023, 5:07 PM

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Aklapper mentioned this in T321330: Fix anchored links in new mobile preferences design.Aug 6 2023, 9:49 PM

Scardenasmolinar added a parent task: T338040: [Epic] Q1 FY 2023-24 Moderator Tools Maintenance Work.Aug 9 2023, 6:48 PM

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jsn.sherman added a project: Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban).Aug 14 2023, 2:51 PM

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jsn.sherman moved this task from Ready to In Progress on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.

Change 952494 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jsn.sherman; author: Jsn.sherman):

[mediawiki/core@master] Special:Preferences fix broken navigation hints

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/952494

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 25 2023, 7:39 PM

jsn.sherman moved this task from In Progress to Eng review on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Aug 25 2023, 7:40 PM

jsn.sherman renamed this task from Message prefs-sections-navigation-hint is missing to Special:Preferences tab/section navigation hints are missing.Aug 25 2023, 7:49 PM

jsn.sherman changed the task status from Open to In Progress.

jsn.sherman triaged this task as High priority.

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Scardenasmolinar moved this task from Eng review to Reviewed (waiting for changes) on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Aug 26 2023, 2:51 AM

Test wiki created on Patch demo by JSherman (WMF) using patch(es) linked to this task:
https://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/68d9f5b10c/w