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[200301131900; j2sdk1.4.2_03] Component Designer's toolbar (on its top) is not accessible by keyboard.
I wonder - is the IDE's main toolbar accessible from keyboard?
I think these two toolbars are little different. The IDE's main toolbar contains shortcuts to actions available from Main menu. Is there any possibility to access the Connection Wizard from Main menu - I think 'No' is right answer. This is why I filed this issue, but I am really not a11y-expert.
So we need to make Connection mode/wizard and Test Form action invokable via keyboard. Test Form action could be added also to context menu of the top designed component. But I don't know what to do for the Connection Wizard.
I've made the TestAction available in the context menu of the top designed component. Invoking the connection wizard via keyboard requires completely new UI design. That's out of scope for 3.6 now.
Increasing the priority to P2(see a11y bug priorities guidelines: http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/a11y_bug_priority_guidelines.html ).
The Connection wizard is invoked by the following steps 1. The form is switched into the Connection mode 2. The next two selected components become the source and the target of the operation described by the user in the wizard. The wizard is displayed as soon as the second component is selected. By now even the first step is not possible because this switch can be done only from the form toolbar and the form toolbar (like any other toolbar) is not accessible via keyboard. Unfortunately this cannot be fixed just by allowing the user to swicth the mode via keyboard from some other place (like some popup menu). The root of this issue is the second step. Even if you are switched in the Connection mode, you cannot select the source and the target component via keyboard because during a traversal to your components another components are selected and they become the source and the target. In fact this issue is "a storm in a teacup" because the only outcome of this wizard one simple line that can be written into the source code directly. The fix of this issue requires a new UI (to be found together with HIE team).
Waiver request approved.
I suggest to close this issue. There seems to be no reasonable way to fix it - or at least we haven't found any for one year. Selecting two arbitrary components subsequently is hard without mouse. But I don't think it is a problem not having this feature covered by keyoboard. Form editor is a visual tool and some of its features are naturally difficult to be used without mouse. And there is always some alternative. E.g. the output of the Connection Wizard is just one line of code in an event handler. Unless you are able to click through it quite quickly it is much easier to just write that code by hand. (The wizard has 3 panels where you need to choose events and properties from long lists - this is very lengthy without mouse.) So it has little sense to try to go through the wizard using keyboard only. For these reasons I suggest to close this issues as WONTFIX for 4.1. I'll wait for an opinion of HIE.
I agree with Tomas's reasons and recommend to close this issue. Important is, that there is a way how to create connection without the Connection wizard...user can write that one line of code in Source Editor.
Closing for the reasons explained above.
I understand it now. The feature is easily available by another way. Verified -> Closed.