Keyboard enhancements: Improve tabbing and focus in placeholder blocks #3016
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[Focus] Accessibility (a11y)
Changes that impact accessibility and need corresponding review (e.g. markup changes).
[Type] Enhancement
A suggestion for improvement.
In #2983 (comment) and #2983 (comment), potential future improvements to tabbing in blocks were discussed.
Briefly:
When a block is selected, you can still tab around the block for the movers and settings shortcuts. See also #3003.
We also have arrowkey navigation (see #2990) across blocks, which behaves/should behave like it would in any textfield. Combined with the slash command, you should be able to build an entire post, only using the keyboard, without having to tab anymore than you absolutely need to, if we make some enhancements. That's what this ticket is about. To explain, here are some flows today, and how we could improve them.
Inserting an image:
Can we change this so as soon as the image placeholder is inserted, the Upload button has focus, instead of requiring a tab as it does now?
Same with Cover Image:
Same with Custom HTML:
Also Classic Text:
Compare this to headings, where pressing tab to set focus isn't necessary:
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