Hello ...
I'm having some trouble with keyboard navigation and popup menus in a Dashboard widget.
If I tab to a popup, I can pop it open with an arrow key, but I cannot use keystrokes to move the selection, and the popup will not "accept" the selection when I hit return or enter or space. Likewise, the popup will not respond to first-character-of-item-name typing. Most of the time.
If I've selected (and accepted) an item with the mouse, I can do the "first-character" thing to select a different item, but only once. (If I mouse-selected "Alice", I can key-select "Betty" by typing "b", but I can't get back to "Alice" by typing "a".)
Then again, sometimes I *can* shift between "Alice" and "Betty" and back by typing "a", "b", "a", "b" to my heart's content. (I'm working on isolating what is making a difference here.) But I still can't get a popped-up popup to shift its selection or accept the selection with key-strokes.
The popup never seems to lose keyboard focus, and I'm not getting event-interference from transparent regions of overlapping widgets. I have noticed that sometimes when I've popped open a menu with the down arrow, the selected item will deselect itself; very strange.
If I load the page into Safari, keyboard navigation seems to work just fine. And keyboard navigation works with popup menus in other widgets. My widget is fairly straightforward, so I'm not sure where things are falling apart.
Any ideas about what to check?
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