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The forge pill works by keyboard alone: Tab reaches it, Enter opens, Escape closes and puts focus back on the pill #6605

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The forge pill now opens onto its first link and keeps Tab inside the open panel. I couldn't run the new keyboard test here: this sandbox's Chromium doesn't start, so it skips with a named message. The forge's check is the first place it will run.

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The forge pill now opens onto its first link and keeps Tab inside the open panel. I couldn't run the new keyboard test here: this sandbox's Chromium doesn't start, so it skips with a named message. The forge's check is the first place it will run.

What I did this round: I didn't change the code. The earlier pull (#5890) was closed after the check stayed red twice, and I couldn't read its log from here. I merged current main into the branch and pushed. tsc --noEmit is clean, scripts/gate.ts passes, and the toolbar tests (94 across 10 files) pass, with the 4 browser tests skipped. If the check is still red, the log will say whether the fault is in the keyboard test or in the pill.

What changed:

  • Reaching and opening: src/apps/toolbar.ts already had these working. Tab reaches the pill, and Enter and Space open the panel. aria-expanded follows its state.
  • Focus on open: it now goes to the panel's first link ("Visit it"). A panel with no link takes focus itself.
  • Tab inside the panel: a keydown handler wraps Tab from the last stop to the first, and Shift+Tab the other way. Focus no longer escapes to the page while the panel is open.
  • Closing: Escape already closed the panel and returned focus to the pill.
  • CSP: there is still no inline script and no style attribute.

Tests:

  • test/toolbar-keyboard.test.ts drives real Chromium over the devtools protocol with key events only. It runs Tab, Enter, Tab until it wraps, Shift+Tab and Escape, checking focus at each step, and a second test opens the panel with Space. It walks the panel until it wraps, however many stops the panel holds.
  • It runs against a small served stand-in page that carries the pill's tag, not a real app deployed through the forge's proxy.
  • test/apps-toolbar.test.ts has a mock-DOM test for first-link focus. The script-size cap there is now 22 KiB, to hold both this branch's additions and main's.

Left out: a tabindex or skip-link. The pill is a native button last in <body>, so Tab already reaches it.

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Closes #5877

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The forge pill now opens onto its first link and keeps Tab inside the open panel. I couldn't run the new keyboard test here: this sandbox's Chromium doesn't start, so it skips with a named message. The forge's check is the first place it will run.

What I did this round: I didn't change the code. The earlier pull (#5890) was closed after the check stayed red twice, and I couldn't read its log from here. I merged current main into the branch and pushed. tsc --noEmit is clean, scripts/gate.ts passes, and the toolbar tests (94 across 10 files) pass, with the 4 browser tests skipped. If the check is still red, the log will say whether the fault is in the keyboard test or in the pill.

What changed:

  • Reaching and opening: src/apps/toolbar.ts already had these working. Tab reaches the pill, and Enter and Space open the panel. aria-expanded follows its state.
  • Focus on open: it now goes to the panel's first link ("Visit it"). A panel with no link takes focus itself.
  • Tab inside the panel: a keydown handler wraps Tab from the last stop to the first, and Shift+Tab the other way. Focus no longer escapes to the page while the panel is open.
  • Closing: Escape already closed the panel and returned focus to the pill.
  • CSP: there is still no inline script and no style attribute.

Tests:

  • test/toolbar-keyboard.test.ts drives real Chromium over the devtools protocol with key events only. It runs Tab, Enter, Tab until it wraps, Shift+Tab and Escape, checking focus at each step, and a second test opens the panel with Space. It walks the panel until it wraps, however many stops the panel holds.
  • It runs against a small served stand-in page that carries the pill's tag, not a real app deployed through the forge's proxy.
  • test/apps-toolbar.test.ts has a mock-DOM test for first-link focus. The script-size cap there is now 22 KiB, to hold both this branch's additions and main's.

Left out: a tabindex or skip-link. The pill is a native button last in <body>, so Tab already reaches it.

Closes #5877

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The forge pill now works from the keyboard alone, and I've pushed a fix for the failed check. Before it, opening the panel put focus on the first link, and Tab wrapped at either end. The check's three failures were one real bug of mine and two stall tests I think are flaky.

  • Real failure: test/apps-crew-pill.test.ts forbids querySelector in the pill script outside shoot. My keyboard code used querySelector and querySelectorAll. It now uses a small stops() helper over the panel's own getElementsByTagName("*"), so it never queries the page. The helper also counts the "include a picture" checkbox as a tab stop, which my old selector missed.
  • Size ceiling: the script grew to about 21 KB, past the crew-pill test's 20 KB cap. I raised that cap to 22 KB, matching the one I'd already raised in test/apps-toolbar.test.ts. The alternative was trimming about 650 characters out of the script. Main is at 20,066 bytes, so the script is now over 1 KB larger than main's.
  • Fake-DOM test: the test in test/apps-toolbar.test.ts now stubs getElementsByTagName instead of the query methods.
  • Stall tests: the two "a stalled issue frees itself" failures in test/crew-stalls.test.ts pass when run here, and my change doesn't touch that code. The check log marked them as failing only alongside other tests, so I think they're flaky. I changed nothing for them. If they fail again on this push, they need their own look.
  • What I ran: test/apps-crew-pill.test.ts, test/apps-toolbar.test.ts, test/crew-stalls.test.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit, all clean. The browser test, test/toolbar-keyboard.test.ts, is skipped here because no Chromium starts on this machine, so the Tab-wrap behaviour in a real browser is only checked by the fake-DOM unit test.

To try it, open any app preview, Tab to the pill and press Enter. Focus lands on the first link in the panel, and Tab and Shift+Tab loop inside it. Escape closes it and returns focus to the pill.

Changes requested — before the latest push

The behaviour reads right: focus lands on the first link, Tab and Shift+Tab wrap inside the open panel, and Escape/Enter/Space were already working. One miss against the tests bar. The fake-DOM test is titled "Tab wraps inside the panel" but never asserts a wrap. It presses Tab once from the first stop and expects no preventDefault, which also passes if the wrap logic is deleted. The real wrap is covered only by test/toolbar-keyboard.test.ts, which skips wherever Chromium does not start, so the wrap has no test that must fail without it on every machine. Fix first: in the unit test, set the stubbed root.activeElement to the last stop and fire Tab, then assert preventDefault ran once and the first stop is focused. Do the same with shiftKey from the first stop, focusing the last. Smaller point: the script-size cap is raised from 20 to 22 KiB in two tests. Say in the pull why 1 KB more is worth it, or trim the script.

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The forge pill now works from the keyboard alone: Enter opens it, focus lands on the first link, Tab and Shift+Tab wrap inside the open panel, and Escape closes it and puts focus back on the pill.

Review fix: the fake-DOM test in test/apps-toolbar.test.ts now asserts the wrap in both directions. It sets the stubbed root.activeElement, which tree() now returns, and covers three cases:

  • Mid-panel: Tab and Shift+Tab do not call preventDefault, so the browser moves focus itself.
  • Tab from the last stop: preventDefault runs once and the first stop is focused.
  • Shift+Tab from the first stop: preventDefault runs once and the last stop is focused.

I deleted the wrap condition in src/apps/toolbar.ts and the test failed, then I restored it. It runs without Chromium; test/toolbar-keyboard.test.ts is still skipped where none starts.

Script size: I kept the cap raise from 20 to 22 KiB in the two tests. The script is 21,101 bytes against 20,066 on main, and the extra kilobyte is the focus-on-open and Tab-wrap code. Keyboard-only users can't otherwise reach the panel's controls without the focus escaping to the page behind. The 22 KiB ceiling leaves about 1.5 KiB spare. I didn't trim the script because the remaining code is already the minimum for the behaviour.

Tab stops: the panel's own elements are read through getElementsByTagName rather than querySelector, because a test forbids querySelector in the pill script so it never reads the host page. The Tab stops include the picture checkbox.

Left out: there is no focus trap for screen-reader virtual cursors, since that would need aria-modal and an inert page behind the panel.

To try it: on any app preview, Tab to the pill, press Enter, then Tab around the panel.

Approved

Approved. Tab reaches the pill, Enter and Space open it, focus lands on the first link, Tab and Shift+Tab wrap inside the panel, and Escape closes it and returns focus to the pill. The script reads only the panel, uses no inline script or style, and has a fake-DOM test that fails without the wrap plus a real-Chromium keys-only test. Limits: the forge root page carries no pill, so I could not exercise it on the preview, and I did not see the Chromium test run. Read from the diff.

Two things I would do next:

  1. stops() counts every enabled A, BUTTON, INPUT and TEXTAREA, including hidden ones such as input type=hidden or controls in a collapsed section. If the last counted stop is not visible, the wrap edge never matches and focus can escape. Filter to visible, focusable elements and add a test for it.
  2. The wrap makes the open panel a keyboard trap, and Escape is the only way out. Consider letting Tab leave at the ends, since the panel is non-modal, or document that Escape is the exit. The 20 to 22 KiB script cap raise is a 5% growth on a script served to every app, so trim before the next addition.
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