Keyboard interaction in Cypress testing

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Summary

Cypress currently does not support keyboard 'Tab' events, or typing() outside of a non-input component, making confident testing of a11y E2E tests difficult.

💬 Description

Research ways in which we can incorporate keyboard events in our tests, helping to better emulate how a user would interact with our components.
There is currently an open ticket in the Cypress GH regarding this and native events, but as it is eight years old it seems unlikely to be remedied. Fixes may include custom functions, outside libraries like cypress-plugin-tab
and cypress-real-events

💰 Use value

Help developers to fully E2E test components.