Search & arrow key navigation changes

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Very minor issue but breaking my muscle memory a little! Anyone else noticed since a recent update (we're on 26.3.11.9650, but not sure the update that introduced this), you can no longer use up & down arrow keys to move between devices? It seems to just put me in the search bar instead. Also searching is a bit odd too, if I search for a device, that search will remain in the search bar when moving between session groups, although it doesn't have any effect on the new session group I move to, just seems to be a visual thing.

Tested on both Edge and Firefox and same behaviour seems to occur between them.

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Sean White Team Member

Hi Ben,

You’re not going crazy; this is due to recent navigation changes we made to improve accessibility (better tab flow, clearer selection states, etc.), which did change how keyboard focus works a bit.

In the session list now:

  • Tab / Shift+Tab moves you through items
  • Arrow keys still work, but only when the session list panel itself is focused
    • From the search box, just tab once until you see an outline around the list — then arrow keys will work again

That said, we also found two bugs specifically around arrow keys interacting with the search box; fixes are already in progress and should go out in 26.5.


Appreciate you calling it out — totally get the muscle memory frustration here.

Sean