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From: Jonathan H
Date: Apr 18, 2014 1:51AM

Hi; first posting here.

To cut a month-long story short, it was brought to my attention by a
keyboard-only tester of a site I'm developing, that they cannot save
SOME of the files when using Google Chrome.

After hours of testing between browsers, operating systems, trying
different doctypes etc, I finally ended up with this example page:
http://goo.gl/6oyiGc

Forget about the fact that the links are just to pages; it makes no
difference, imagine they are files. Now try and download some of them
with the keyboard. Remember, you're saving the target, not the current
page.
"Save link as", not "save as". See the problem now?!

Unfortunately, the developers of Google Chrome think being able to use
the browser if you're a keyboard user is a "feature request", removed
the "bug" tag and changed it to "feature request" and lowered the
priority.
Even though they agree that it used to behave correctly.

Remember, the menu key should EXACTLY emulate a right mouse click
which of course blind/keyboard only users won't generally use. Any
difference is a problem; any difference which depends arbitrarily on
where in a list of words it is a bug.

So would people mind taking a few moments to "star" this issue to give
it some weight, and maybe add a comment?
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=362147
You just need to be signed in with your regular Google/Gmail account.

It's pretty much confirmed as a bug in my threads at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23084579/how-can-i-diff-all-attributes-and-properties-of-two-dom-elements
and https://forum.jquery.com/topic/can-i-use-jquery-to-export-compare-or-repair-a-dom-element-giving-trouble-in-one-browser

PS - techy bit: If you're a bit handy with the Blink DOM renderer or
carry any weight in the accessible browser development community, your
input is greatly appreciated!

Thanks again.