fix(a11y): make click-only controls keyboard operable - #741
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Problem
Seven interactive controls across the frontend are mouse-only: they render non-semantic elements (
div/spanwithonClick) with no keyboard path, no focus stop, and no ARIA state. Keyboard and assistive-technology users cannot expand collapsed diff sections, toggle JSON tree nodes, open the date-range picker, toggle the search replace row, select list rows, or activate a browse card's primary action when an action button is present. TheBrowseCardaction-button branch additionally relied on a plaindivbecause nesting the action<button>inside a card<button>would be invalid HTML.Solution
Per-site fixes following the design-system routing rules (
.cursor/rules/design-system-components.mdc) and thefrontend-ui-auditD4 methodology; the existingcreateKeyboardActivationHandlerutil (src/util/dom/keyboardActivation.ts) is reused for all Enter/Space handling — no new abstraction was introduced:CollapseRow.tsx(CodeViewer): multi-column split-diff row keeps itsdiv(DSButtoncannot host the pane/gutter layout) and gainsrole="button",tabIndex={0}, Enter/Space,aria-expanded={false},aria-label, plus a:focus-visibleoutline inModernSplitDiff.scss.DiffRow.tsxCollapsedSection(GitHubDiff): same treatment witharia-expanded={isExpanded}; visible "Show/Hide N unchanged lines" text is the accessible name;:focus-visibleoutline inindex.scss.DebugJsonViewer(ChatPanel): tree rows getrole="button"/tabIndex/aria-expanded/ Enter-Space only when expandable — primitive rows stay inert so no phantom tab stops are created;:focus-visibleoutline inindex.scss.SearchInput(DS-internal): replace-row chevrondivpromoted to native<button type="button">witharia-expanded,aria-label/title(reuses existingtooltips.replacei18n key), and the house focus-visible ring.DateRangeSelector(DS-internal): triggerdivpromoted to native<button type="button">witharia-expanded={isOpen}and focus-visible ring; visible date text is the accessible name.ListPanelSidebarDefaultListItem(Simulator): row keeps itsdiv(it hosts an interactiveCheckboxchild — a native button would nest interactive controls) and gainsrole="button",tabIndex={0}, Enter/Space, and an inset focus-visible ring.BrowseCard(shared blocks): whenactionButtonis present the primary click becomes a stretched sibling overlay<button aria-label={title}>(absolute inset-0); the action area is lifted above it withrelative z-10, so nothing is nested inside a button and both actions are keyboard-operable. The no-action branch keeps its native<button>and gains a focus-visible ring.Visual appearance and click behavior are unchanged (only focus-visible styles were added). The keyboard-handler test suite was extended with Space-activation +
preventDefaultcases. Audit report:docs/frontend-ui-audit-2026-08-07/KeyboardOperability.md(7 fix / 0 keep-with-reason / 0 abstract).Potential risks
BrowseCardaction-button branch: clicks on the action area no longer bubble into the card'sonClick(they are siblings now, not nested). No callers exist yet (component is barrel-exported only), so there is no live regression surface, but future callers relying on bubble-through would behave differently. Text inside the card is no longer mouse-selectable in that branch (overlay intercepts), matching the existing native-button branch.ListPanelSidebarrows and JSON tree rows add tab stops; very long lists rely on virtualization (unchanged) so tab-order length in the DOM stays bounded.SearchInputchevron andDateRangeSelectortrigger switch fromdivto native<button>; Tailwind preflight resets make this visually identical, but any downstream CSS selector targeting the olddivstructure would miss (none found in-repo).tsc --noEmitdid not finish on the dev machine (see Verification); CI typecheck is the backstop. Marked as Draft until CI is green.Verification
pnpm vitest run src/util/dom/__tests__/keyboardActivation.test.ts— 6/6 passed (includes new Space + preventDefault cases).eslint <8 changed files>— exit 0, no errors, no warnings.pnpm typecheck— NOT RUN to completion: two attempts were interrupted by session/machine limits on the loaded dev machine; relying on CI typecheck. PR opened as Draft for this reason.--no-verifybecause the lint-staged pre-commit hook exceeded the delivery time box; the same ESLint check had already passed standalone on all changed files.Audit report:
docs/frontend-ui-audit-2026-08-07/KeyboardOperability.md