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Keyboard Navigation not working correctly in Note Input Mode
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Description
Issue type
Accessibility issue (e.g. for keyboard-only or screen reader users)
Description with steps to reproduce
In Note Input Mode Ctrl F doesn’t work, Ctrl Home doesn’t work if you arrow after it, alt arrow does. It has been suggested this is likely because Ctrl Home selects the first bar line so in note input mode which only selects notes & rests it gets stuck.
STEPS:
- Move a few bars into a score and press N for note input mode.
- Press Ctrl F, type in a bar number and press enter.
- Actual Behaviour: Nothing happens, focus is unchanged.
- Expected Behaviour: Focus moves to the bar that was typed.
- Press Ctrl Home. You hear “bar line single bar line bar 1 beat 1”.
- Press right arrow.
- Expected behaviour: Focus moves to the next note/rest in bar 1.
- Actual Behaviour: Focus moves to the next note/rest from where you were before you pressed Ctrl Home.
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What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?
4.5.2
Regression
I was unable to check
Operating system
Windows 11 with NVDA
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