microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows
Upstream Keyboarding and Accessibility Changes to Touchable/Pressable
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Area: Keyboard
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enhancement
Workstream: Releases and Integrations
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Description
We made changes to allow spacebar activation to Touchable, as well as forwarding more accessibility properties to the underlying view. We should upstream these.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Touchable and Pressable entry points in react-native-windows and reviewing how keyboard activation and accessibility properties are currently handled. Compare the existing implementation with the upstream changes referenced in the issue, then verify that spacebar activation and forwarding of the intended accessibility properties work for both components.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- react-native
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100