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Callstack navigation: automatically expand to next branching node #517
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From Marco on Bugzilla, this can be a problem for accessibility as the controls would be different to what a tree normally is. Possible solutions (?):
I think I'd settle for solution 3 for now, as it's easier and doesn't impair accessibility. For discoverability we could display a note if we detect that the user keeps the arrow key pressed. |
This will introduce potentially confusing situations for users of assistive technologies. When a blind user, for example, hits RightArrow on a collapsed node, the screen reader will announce that the node has now been expanded. If a focus change happened immediately as a result of pressing RightArrow, this state change announcement would be nuked by the information being spoken as a result of the focus change. Moreover, if I understand the above correctly, it wouldn't even be the first child that gets focus, but any of a number of children, adding even more unpredictability to the behavior. For somebody who has to work sequentially and doesn't have the benefit of a broad overview, this will add a massive amount of cognitive load. Therefore, I strongly must object to this change. |
Thanks Marco, I appreciate learning about the accessibility issues for this - I had some sense that it was risky UX, but didn't know about these additional problems. Julien's idea of only doing this behavior with a modifier key seems like a good idea. |
I moved the ticket back to the "todo" column. I think we still need this to improve the life of our users, just we need to use a modifier like shift or ctrl for accessibility reason, and find a way to make it discoverable by our users. I think most of the code I did in #803 still works. |
As an alternative to the key modifier, when expanding is triggered by a click, could we expand automatically to the next branching when there's more than eg. 500ms between the mouse down and mouse up events? |
I feel it's even less discoverable :/ |
Navigating the callstack seems slow since it requires two right-arrow key presses to expand and go to next row.
We should change it so that right-arrow (or clicking on disclosure triangle) automatically expands to the next node that has 2 or more children. It should auto-select that node.
Edit: When using left-arrow key or closing the arrow, it should have the opposite behavior - closing all nodes since the last fork.
I think it's possible that expanding all the way to the next branching node will feel like too much. The subtler version would be to just have each right-arrow key press trigger both expand and go to next row.
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