Keyboard accessibility and ARIA for column cog menu - #2873
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The column actions (cog) menu was mouse-only: the trigger had no keyboard affordance and the menu had no ARIA roles or arrow-key navigation. - Make the cog trigger a focusable role="button" with aria-haspopup="menu", aria-expanded, and an aria-label; open it with Enter/Space/ArrowDown. - Add role="menu"/role="menuitem" and roving focus with Up/Down/Home/End. - Escape closes and restores focus to the trigger; Tab closes the menu. Refs simonw#1964 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Refs #1964
The column actions (cog) menu is currently mouse-only. The trigger is a bare SVG with a click handler — it isn't in the tab order — and the menu has no ARIA roles or keyboard navigation.
This adds keyboard support following the ARIA menu button pattern:
role="button"witharia-haspopup="menu",aria-expanded, and anaria-label("Column actions for {column}"). It opens with Enter / Space / ArrowDown.role="menu"and each itemrole="menuitem"with rovingtabindex; Up/Down/Home/End move focus (wrapping).Mouse behavior is unchanged. Diff is limited to
datasette/static/table.js(+71/-2).Note: I wasn't able to run the full Playwright suite headless in my environment, so a maintainer check in a browser would be welcome — happy to add a Playwright test for the keyboard flow if you'd like.