FLUID-188: Provide keyboard navigation within individual portlets.

Description

At the moment, we navigate between portals on the page using the arrow keys. Based on design specifications, we'd like to create a coherent, unified approach to navigating between portlets and within each one.

Comments

• Anastasia Cheetham commented 2008-02-06T15:03:39.000-0500

  Current thinking on how this should behave can be found at
  http://fluidproject.org/work/keyboardtest/keyboardtest.html

• Michelle D'Souza commented 2008-04-07T15:41:34.000-0400

  A thorough testing and assessment of this behaviour is needed to ensure that keyboard navigation works as expected.

• Michelle D'Souza commented 2008-04-07T15:42:01.000-0400

  Jonathan, can you take a look at this?

• Jonathan Hung commented 2008-04-08T11:17:27.000-0400

  The multiple focus is the most confusing aspect of the mock-up. When a link is selected using a tab, I expect that hitting down-arrow will move me to the next link below, but instead the portal changes focus to the next to the right.

  I guess I was expecting the same behaviour that is possible with the outer (portal) container to apply to the contents inside the container. (Arrow keys navigate within a list).

  Food for thought:
  What if a portal container contains multiple items not necessarily in a list (like a Weather portlet with a 5 day forecast horizontally and a list of the days in the extended 14 day forcast below that... and each item "clickable"). How will a user navigate that given the above portal navigation scheme?

• Michelle D'Souza commented 2008-04-08T15:30:27.000-0400

  Jonathan tested the potlet reordering and confirmed that we can navigate inside a portlet with the keyboard.

• Michelle D'Souza commented 2011-02-22T16:27:45.569-0500

  Closing issues that were resolved for 1.0 and earlier releases.