Replace character key shortcuts
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Accessibility issue.
There are keyboard shortcuts for activating different functions in the Mail app. Shortcuts such as these can interfere with shortcuts used by some assistive technologies.
Because of this the character key shortcuts should be replaced.
Suggested solution
- Give an option to turn off keyboard shortcuts
- Set them to only be active when the user is in the area they affect
- Test so the shortcuts don’t interfere with screen reader commands
Please make sure that the shortcuts don’t interfere with screen reader commands (NVDA, Jaws, Orca).
See more here
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#character-key-shortcuts
https://webtest.bitv-test.de/index.php?a=di&iid=269&s=n
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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
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Begin by locating the Mail app's character-key shortcut handling and accessibility coverage, then define and verify a solution that supports disabling or scoping shortcuts without interfering with NVDA, JAWS, or Orca commands.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100