[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28209: Links inside help tabs (help-tab-content) are not keyboard accessible

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#28209: Links inside help tabs (help-tab-content) are not keyboard accessible
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 Reporter:  rianrietveld    |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch       |     Focuses:  accessibility
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Changes (by neil_pie):

 * keywords:   => has-patch


Comment:

 This is because an active state is being applied to each tab on keyboard
 focus as well as click, rather than just click. This displays the contents
 of each tab-panel as the links themselves are being tabbed through.

 The problem is caused because that keyboard focus only enters the tab-
 panel once it has finished cycling through the tab-links themselves ( and
 in this case the "more information" links to the right ).

 Because the active state is applied to each tab-panel as it gains focus,
 the final tab is always being displayed by the time keyboard focus reaches
 the tab-panel contents. You can see an example of this in the Help tabs of
 edit.php

 [[Image(https://www.dropbox.com/s/iwki3ob2cabez2j/Screenshot%202014-05-22%2001.43.46.png)]]

 I don't believe that this is correct behaviour, as nowhere else would you
 expect to activate a link or button simply by applying keyboard focus. The
 submitted patch fixes this.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28209#comment:1>
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