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Unable to select an accidental with keyboard navigation
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Since Jan 13, 2026.
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Description
Issue type
Accessibility issue (e.g. for keyboard-only or screen reader users)
Description with steps to reproduce
There seems to be no way to navigate to an accidental with the keyboard independetly of the note it is attached to in order to change its properties, in particular add a reminder accidental bracket just around the accidental.
STEPS:
- Enter a few notes into a score including 1 with an accidental.
- Use Alt + arrow keys to navigate along element by element. Notice the navigation moves to the note with the accidental and speech announces this including the accidental, but it skips the accidental itself.
This is correct behaviour for the Alt arrow and we wouldn't want it to move to every accidental independetly of the note it is attached to, but there needs to be some other way to do this, for example Ctrl Alt arrows to make a micro movement to individual aspects within an element.
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In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?
4.6
Regression
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Operating system
Windows 11 with NVDA
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