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Re: Google Chrome blocks accessibility for keyboard users.Your input is needed.

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From: Daniel Tang (dtang)
Date: Apr 18, 2014 11:31AM

What do I have to say about this in order to support your cause?

Daniel Tang (dtang)


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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jonathan H
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 12:51 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Google Chrome blocks accessibility for keyboard users. Your input is needed.

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.