Unable to close tile detail with keyboard only

[Corrine Schoeb]

It seems to be working fine with VoiceOver and mouse click. A workaround is to open another tile detail, but one can never close the open tile detail with a keyboard only as we can with VoiceOver and a mouse click. I can get focus on the close “x” but it immediately loses focus and jumps to the first detail item

[Asha Kinney]

We have discovered this issue as well. Keyboard-only users are unable to navigate to the close button of a tile. 

When navigating a course using keyboard-only access (ie using the tab key), you cannot use the keyboard to select and click the close button of a tile. This is also true when using a screen reader.

This creates a trap for users. All mouse functionalities must be available to keyboard only users as well. This is a critical accessibility error.

Tab order in general could use some attention, as after tabbing through a tile you go back to the top of a page instead of the next focusable element in the DOM.

Thanks!

[David Watson]

I will change this in an upcoming release in October/November. At present the way to close the tile using the keyboard is to use the escape key, but I can see why it would be clearer just to give them the close button

[David Watson]

Marking as resolved since this is included in the latest 4.3 beta release which is planned to be rolled out to 4.1/4.2 after 4.3 testing is comple