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Drum pad right-click context menus not available via keyboard
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Description
Issue type
Accessibility issue (e.g. for keyboard-only or screen reader users)
Description with steps to reproduce
Shortcuts for Drum pad can be reassigned by right clicking on them. This does not seem to work with keyboard.
STEPS:
- Create a score with a drum kit and navigate to that staff.
- Press Tab several times to get on to the Percussion panel and to any of the Drum Pads.
- Right click and see a context menu appears.
- Press right arrow to move to the next Drum Pad item and this time try using the application key, Shift F10 or number pad multiply to emulate a right click. Notice that there seems to be no way to bring up this same context menu with keyboard.
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In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?
4.7 beta
Regression
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Operating system
Windows 11 with NVDA
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