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Make revision selectable via keyboard
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Currently it is only possible to select new revision in the comparision UI by using the mouse (see screenshot). We also want to enable keyboard users to do this.

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MareikeHeuerWMDE

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We looked into the code and also checked the behaviour of a standard OOUI popup widget with links. The later makes them focusable for keyboard users by default. So we might want to look into the current code and see why that is not happening there. Maybe there were too many adaptions? Maybe we can try to base the code more on the standard element.

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We looked into the code and also checked the behaviour of a standard OOUI popup widget with links. The later makes them focusable for keyboard users by default. So we might want to look into the current code and see why that is not happening there. Maybe there were too many adaptions? Maybe we can try to base the code more on the standard element.

I think this is a mixup with T341872: Can not reach revision popups content via keyboard .

Revisions can be selected via keyboard using the arrow keys. So I consider this ticket invalid.