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Accessibility: keyboard navigation in properties panel is difficult with spinboxes

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Since Mar 10, 2023.

accessibility regression MS3 UI
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Description

Issue type

UI bug

Bug description

When using the keyboard to navigate in Properties, the cursor keys are the usual controls to navigate with a group, but this doesn't work on spinboxes, because the cursor instead navigates the text within (left/right) or changes the value (up/down). Tab does not work either.

Steps to reproduce
  1. select a note in a score
  2. open Properties panel
  3. open the Appearance tab
  4. click in the Leading spinbox
  5. attempt to navigate by keyboard to the next spinbox (Measure width)

Result: neither Right, Down, nor Tab get you there. Only Esc or Enter followed by Right do.

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MuseScore Version

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 4.0.2-230690504, revision: github-musescore-musescore-dbe7c6d

Regression

Yes, this used to work in Musescore 3.x and now is broken

Operating system

Debian 11

Additional context

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