[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #48751: Unable to approve comment without a mouse

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#48751: Unable to approve comment without a mouse
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 Reporter:  akrabat                            |       Owner:  audrasjb
     Type:  defect (bug)                       |      Status:  reviewing
 Priority:  normal                             |   Milestone:  Awaiting
                                               |  Review
Component:  Comments                           |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-screenshots reporter-feedback  |     Focuses:  ui,
                                               |  accessibility
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Comment (by akrabat):

 Replying to [comment:9 afercia]:
 > Worth noting the same reveal/hide mechanism is used in various other
 places in the admin: Posts, Pages, Taxonomies, Media (List view), Users,
 etc. The only place where the "action links" are visible by default is the
 Plugins page, for historical reasons.

 I was idly wondering if I was missing other features of the admin...

 > @akrabat thanks for your report. Are you able to tab to those links and
 buttons also in those other pages?
 >
 > Does it still happen when you temporarily disable Shortcat or Vimari?

 Yes, I can tab to them. It just never occurred to me to try as tab is
 essentially broken on a vast amount of webpages that aren't forms as you
 usually get "stuck" somewhere and can't get out again.

 Tab is also a horrible way to navigate to a control that's not right at
 the top of the page when there are more direct tools available. e.g. on
 the admin page dashboard, it takes 21 presses of the tab key to get to the
 "comments" menu item in the left hand pane. With Vimari (Vimium in Chrome,
 Vimiam-X in Firefox), I can press "f" "q" a" and be there in 3 key
 presses. I would guess that for visually impaired users, tab is a good
 solution as sequential navigation is probably best. However I have
 arthritis and can see just fine, so spatially-aware navigation tools make
 much more sense for me.

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