DropdownWidget and ComboBoxWidget dropdown arrow is not keyboard accessible
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If I click on the small arrow next to the textfield in these controls, the dropdown menu is opened. However, when tab or screenreader navigating trough the page, i'm not able to focus this control and do the same.

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Open	None	T49145 Formally deprecate jQuery UI after we've stopped using jQuery UI in extensions and core (replacing it with OOUI).
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Open	None	T107037 Convert all MW core special pages to OOUI
Resolved	matmarex	T86865 Convert Special:MovePage to OOUI-based form
Resolved	matmarex	T88906 All SelectWidgets (most importantly DropdownWidget/MenuSelectWidget and ButtonSelectWidget) are not keyboard-accessible
Resolved	matmarex	T87705 DropdownWidget and ComboBoxWidget dropdown arrow is not keyboard accessible

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TheDJ created this task.Jan 27 2015, 11:13 PM

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Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Normal priority.Jan 28 2015, 2:04 AM

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: Accessibility.

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matmarex mentioned this in T88906: All SelectWidgets (most importantly DropdownWidget/MenuSelectWidget and ButtonSelectWidget) are not keyboard-accessible.Feb 7 2015, 7:59 PM

matmarex mentioned this in T88090: Most button types do not support keyboard triggering.

matmarex removed a subtask: T88906: All SelectWidgets (most importantly DropdownWidget/MenuSelectWidget and ButtonSelectWidget) are not keyboard-accessible.Feb 9 2015, 3:09 PM

matmarex added a parent task: T88906: All SelectWidgets (most importantly DropdownWidget/MenuSelectWidget and ButtonSelectWidget) are not keyboard-accessible.

matmarex added a parent task: T86865: Convert Special:MovePage to OOUI-based form.Feb 9 2015, 8:49 PM

matmarex mentioned this in T53229: OOUI: Tab character in dropdown boxes should pick the current selection (like Enter does).Feb 9 2015, 10:33 PM

Change 189609 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński):
DropdownWidget, ComboBoxWidget: Make keyboard-accessible

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/189609

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Vaguely related: T53229.

matmarex claimed this task.Feb 10 2015, 2:02 AM

matmarex moved this task from Backlog to Doing on the OOUI board.Feb 10 2015, 4:42 PM

Change 189609 merged by jenkins-bot:
DropdownWidget, ComboBoxWidget: Make keyboard-accessible

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/189609

Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Feb 11 2015, 10:38 PM

Jdforrester-WMF edited projects, added OOjs-UI-next-release; removed Patch-For-Review.

Jdforrester-WMF edited projects, added OOUI (OOjs-UI-0.7.0), WMF-deploy-2015-02-18_(1.25wmf18); removed OOjs-UI-next-release.Feb 12 2015, 12:28 AM

matmarex mentioned this in rGOJUfe8e2f5a4857: DropdownWidget, ComboBoxWidget: Make keyboard-accessible.Mar 3 2015, 7:50 PM

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Doing to Reviewing on the OOUI board.Mar 26 2015, 8:57 PM

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