Touchable focus events not triggering with keyboard (needed for accessibility)
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Description
Description
I am trying to add custom focus styles if a pressable is focused to make the keyboard focus visible in any case (dark/light mode, different background colors etc).
It seems like TouchableOpacity and TouchableHightlight both get forwarded from TouchableWithoutFeedback, which has the onFocus and onBlur events. I was trying to hold a focus state with these events to render styles dynamically. However, they do not get triggered at all, even if I use TouchableWithoutFeedback, which leads me to think that's the culprit.
Accessibility requires visibility of focus states. Is there another way to retrieve focus states?
Steps to reproduce
Here's a little example:
const [isFocused, setIsFocused] = useState(false);
return (
// same with `TouchableWithoutFeedback` and `TouchableOpacity`
<TouchableHighlight
onFocus={() => setIsFocused(true)}
onBlur={() => setIsFocused(false)}
style={{
backgroundColor: isFocused?"gray":"transparent",
}}
>
...
</TouchableHighlight>
);
React Native Version
0.74.3
Affected Platforms
Runtime - Android
Output of npx react-native info
System:
OS: macOS 14.5
CPU: (12) arm64 Apple M2 Pro
Memory: 109.05 MB / 16.00 GB
Shell:
version: "5.9"
path: /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node:
version: 20.13.1
path: ~/Library/Caches/fnm_multishells/94190_1719818822541/bin/node
Yarn: Not Found
npm:
version: 10.5.2
path: ~/Library/Caches/fnm_multishells/94190_1719818822541/bin/npm
Watchman:
version: 2024.06.10.00
path: /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
Managers:
CocoaPods:
version: 1.15.2
path: /Users/d.timur/.rbenv/shims/pod
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms:
- DriverKit 23.5
- iOS 17.5
- macOS 14.5
- tvOS 17.5
- visionOS 1.2
- watchOS 10.5
Android SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: 2023.2 AI-232.10300.40.2321.11668458
Xcode:
version: 15.4/15F31d
path: /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
Java:
version: 17.0.11
path: /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@17/bin/javac
Ruby:
version: 2.7.6
path: /Users/d.timur/.rbenv/shims/ruby
npmPackages:
"@react-native-community/cli": Not Found
react:
installed: 18.2.0
wanted: 18.2.0
react-native:
installed: 0.74.2
wanted: 0.74.2
react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
"*react-native*": Not Found
Android:
hermesEnabled: true
newArchEnabled: false
iOS:
hermesEnabled: true
newArchEnabled: false
Stacktrace or Logs
-
Reproducer
https://github.com/proohit/focus-example
Screenshots and Videos
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First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked focus-example reproducer and trace how TouchableHighlight, TouchableOpacity, and TouchableWithoutFeedback handle onFocus and onBlur on Android. Confirm the keyboard-focus behavior and define done as focus events firing reliably so a custom visible focus style can be rendered.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react-native, typescript
- Domain
- accessibility, mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100