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fix(web): screen readers can browse and Tab through the settings sections again - #30841
Since https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/25877 the Settings section nav has been an ARIA tree with one Tab stop. With NVDA in browse mode, every line starts with "Settings sections tree view". Tab reaches the open section and then leaves the nav. The group headings (Agents, Code, Connections) are aria-hidden, so H skips them. Reproduced on main at 8b44f42 in the web app (desktop renders the same component). Open /settings/worktrees and press Tab from the search field: focus goes to Worktrees, then straight to the page's Close button. The other 19 sections can't be reached with Tab.
Section buttons: the sections are plain buttons in lists again. role="tree", role="treeitem", aria-selected and the roving tab index are gone, so every section is in the Tab order.
Group headings: the headings are real <h3> headings again, and each group is labelled by its heading with aria-labelledby.
Kept:aria-current="page" on the open section, and Up/Down/Home/End moving focus between sections without opening them. That logic is now a plain keydown handler in settingsSectionNavigation.ts. It has no Tab-stop state left to track, so it is no longer a hook.
F6: entering the nav now lands on [data-settings-section][aria-current="page"]. It used to look for [tabindex="0"], the roving Tab stop. Without the explicit attribute, no section matches that selector, so F6 would land on the search field instead.
Docs: the Settings sentence in docs/user/keyboard-focus.md is updated.
SettingsSidebarNav.composition.browser.test.tsx gets two new tests:
"moves Tab through every settings section". On main: expected [ 'General' ] to deeply equal [ 'General', 'Appearance', …(18) ].
"exposes group headings as headings that name their groups". On main: the Agents heading is not exposed as a heading.
workspaceFocus.browser.test.ts gets "enters the Settings sections on the open section". With the old [tabindex="0"] selector it fails: F6 lands on the area's first button.
At head, both files pass (20/20). vp run check:changed passes: format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests and react compiler.
Evidence
Real web app, before = 8b44f42 and after = 34269a5. Each side ran from its own checkout on a fresh database. Environment: headless Chromium 148, no device emulation, DPR 1, 100% zoom, reduced motion.
Stills: whole surface, compared with ImageMagick compare -metric AE. The before and after frames are pixel-identical, so they are not attached.
navigation "Settings sections" > combobox "Search settings"
group "": list > listitems > buttons "General" [current=page] | "Appearance" | "Chat" | "Diffs & pull requests" | "Keybindings" | "SnapShots"
group "Agents": heading "Agents" [level=3]; list > listitems > buttons "Providers" | "Threads" | "Browser" | "Devices" | "Scheduled tasks"
group "Code": heading "Code" [level=3]; list > listitems > buttons "Projects" | "Source control" | "Worktrees"
group "Connections": heading "Connections" [level=3]; list > listitems > buttons "Environments" | "Sharing & access"
group "": list > listitems > buttons "Maintenance" | "Labs" | "About" | "Archive"
section Tab stops: all 20; no tree/treeitem/aria-selected
In the 390 px icon rail, the headings stay visually hidden on both sides, as they were before https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/25877. The groups are still named Agents, Code and Connections through aria-labelledby.
Tab traversal, /settings/worktrees at 1440×900. Each step shows the time, the key, where focus landed, and its area. Before:
The 390 px icon rail behaves the same way. Before, Tab from the rail's Search button reaches only Worktrees and then Close. After, it visits all 20 sections and then Close.
Compact search open, close and reopen, 390×844. The script opens compact search from the rail button, presses Tab 3 times and Shift+Tab 4 times, clicks the page, reopens search with /, then presses Tab 3 times. On both sides the empty search blurs and collapses on the first Tab, so the Tabs that follow move through the icon rail; that hasn't changed. Before, the Tabs after opening reach Worktrees and then leave the nav (Close, Project scope), and Shift+Tab returns through Worktrees. After, they reach General, Appearance and Chat, and Shift+Tab steps back through Appearance and General to Search. Reopening with / gives the same result on each side.
Still: whole-window before/after differ by 0 px at both fuzz 0 and fuzz 2%.
Accessibility tree: the same before/after as the web dumps above. Before: tree, treeitems, one Tab stop and no headings. After: lists of buttons, all 20 sections tabbable, and Agents/Code/Connections as level-3 headings.
Tab from search: before, focus goes to Worktrees and then Close. After, it visits General through Archive (20 sections) and then Close.
F6: from the "Worktree location" field, F6 focuses Worktrees on both sides.
Unchanged behaviour, same on both sides:
F6: from the "Worktree location" field in the page, F6 focuses the open section, Worktrees.
Arrow keys: on Worktrees, ArrowDown moves to Environments, End to Archive and Home to General. The route stays /settings/worktrees.
Not checked: NVDA speech and browse-mode H navigation on Windows. The evidence above is Chromium's and Electron's accessibility tree, which NVDA reads, not a screen-reader recording.
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These tests reproduce #30800: Tab from the settings search reaches only
the open section, and the Agents, Code, and Connections group headings are
hidden from assistive tech instead of naming their groups.
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…ions again
The Settings section nav was an ARIA tree with a single roving Tab stop and
hidden group headings, so NVDA browse mode could neither Tab through sections
nor jump between groups with H. Sections are plain list buttons in the Tab
order again, group headings are real headings that label their groups, and
Up/Down/Home/End still move focus between sections without opening them. F6
now enters the nav on the open section via aria-current.
Fixes#30800
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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This restores ordinary Tab navigation and screen-reader grouping for settings sections while preserving arrow-key navigation. The changes are limited to accessibility and focus behavior, with section activation unchanged.
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Settings navigation now uses buttons in the Tab order instead of tree semantics. Arrow keys, Home, and End move focus between sections. Group headings label their groups. Workspace focus targeting and keyboard instructions reflect the updated navigation.
Changes: Settings navigation
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Summary
Section list semantics and keyboard handling apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsSidebarNav.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSectionNavigation.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/useSettingsSectionNavigation.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsSidebarNav.composition.browser.test.tsx
The sidebar removes tree roles and single-tab-stop behavior. Section buttons remain in the Tab order, group labels reference headings, and Arrow, Home, and End keys move focus between sections. Browser tests check Tab order and group semantics.
Workspace focus targeting now prefers the section marked aria-current="page". A browser test checks focus movement to that section. The keyboard instructions describe Tab, Up/Down, and Enter behavior.
pingdotgg/t3code#19669: Introduced the settings ARIA tree and navigation hook that this change removes.
Suggested reviewers:t3dotgg, only21mil
Merge Risk: Low · up to f08be
Two Settings groups remain harder to navigate by heading and lack group context when tabbing. This is a bounded accessibility issue to fix or explicitly accept before merging.
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The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: restoring screen-reader browsing and Tab navigation through the Settings sections.
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The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the behavior change, links the related issue and prior approval, documents focused tests a…
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The changes meet the coding requirements in directly linked issue #30800. SettingsSidebarNav.tsx uses section buttons without tree roles, aria-selected, or roving tab indexes. The section groups u…
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The changes stay within issue #30800. The navigation handler, removed navigation hook, F6 selector, accessibility tests, and keyboard-focus documentation directly support the requested Settings naviga…
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The changes meet the coding requirements in directly linked issue #30800. SettingsSidebarNav.tsx uses section buttons without tree roles, aria-selected, or roving tab indexes. The section groups use real level-3 headings and aria-labelledby. The code keeps aria-current="page" and Up/Down/Home/End navigation. workspaceFocus.ts targets the current section for F6. The browser tests cover Tab traversal, heading and group semantics, and F6. The documentation matches the updated keyboard behavior.
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The changes stay within issue #30800. The navigation handler, removed navigation hook, F6 selector, accessibility tests, and keyboard-focus documentation directly support the requested Settings navigation behavior. The available whole-PR summary shows no unrelated product changes.
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- Line 386: Update the group-heading class condition in SettingsSidebarNav so
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Before/after stills for the evidence table in the description (fresh databases, no seeded data). Each pair is pixel-identical (0 px at fuzz 0 and fuzz 2%); the change is in the accessibility tree and Tab order, shown as text in the description.
Web, /settings/general, 1440×900, light: before 8b44f42, after 34269a5
Web icon rail, /settings/worktrees, 390×844, light: before 8b44f42, after 34269a5
Desktop (Electron 44, Linux), /settings/worktrees, 1920×1080, light: before 8b44f42, after 34269a5
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With NVDA in browse mode, pressing H on a group heading announces the name twice: "Agents grouping, Agents heading level 3". The <h3> sits inside the role="group" that it labels, so NVDA announces entering the group, then reads the heading. The group name has to stay, because in focus mode Tab skips headings and the group name is the only thing that tells a Tab user which group they're in. Moving the <h3> just outside the group, with aria-labelledby still pointing at it, fixes the duplication:
Browse mode, H: reads "Agents heading level 3" once. "Agents grouping" no longer comes before it.
Focus mode, Tab: moving into a group still announces its name ("Agents grouping"). The same goes for Code and Connections.
max-md:sr-only replaces max-md:hidden so H can also find the headings in the icon rail. That changes nothing on screen. The heading test in SettingsSidebarNav.composition.browser.test.tsx covers this layout in both the wide nav and the icon rail. It checks that the group is named by the heading and that the heading sits outside the group. With the component at 34269a5, both cases fail: the Agents heading is inside its group.
The two untitled groups still have no group name. General → SnapShots and Maintenance → Archive have neither a heading nor a group label. So:
In focus mode, tabbing into them announces no group, unlike Agents, Code and Connections.
In browse mode, H can't land on the first group, and the last group reads as if it belongs under Connections.
Each needs a name, used both as its heading and as its group label (aria-labelledby), like the other three. "General" is already a section name, so the first group needs something else. Whether the names show on screen is a design call.
Issue watch for #30800 found this PR at head 34269a5, with GitHub confirming it closes that issue. Handing the issue-watch job over to this PR. No code changes or independent runtime tests were started. The report is Windows 11 with NVDA 2026.3; NVDA speech and browse-mode H navigation remain unverified, as this PR already records.
… the icon rail
NVDA read each group name twice in browse mode because the heading sat
inside the group it labels. Move it just outside, keep the group named by
it, and use sr-only instead of hidden so H also finds it in the icon rail.
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Give the untitled groups accessible headings.
The General–SnapShots and Maintenance–Archive groups have no heading or accessible group name. Browse-mode users cannot jump directly to either group with H, and Tab users can miss the group context.
Render screen-reader-only headings for these groups and reference them with aria-labelledby to preserve the visual layout.
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsSidebarNav.tsx around lines 377 - 399:
Update the SETTINGS_NAV_GROUPS rendering so the untitled General–SnapShots and Maintenance–Archive groups each have a screen-reader-only heading and an aria-labelledby reference to that heading. Preserve the existing visual layout and heading behavior for titled groups.
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Real web app, Chromium on Linux, dark mode, fresh isolated default state on each commit. Open Settings > Worktrees, focus empty Search settings, and press Tab repeatedly. Repeat at 600px width. Then check Up/Down/Home/End and F6/Ctrl+F6 from page content.
Base: Tab reaches Worktrees, then leaves the navigation for Close. Head: all 21 section buttons are reachable, from General through Archive, while Worktrees remains open. Browser accessibility snapshots show treeitems and missing group headings before; buttons, Agents/Code/Connections headings, and named groups after, including in the compact rail. Arrow movement and F6 access work on both sides.
Windows NVDA speech, browse-mode Down/H behavior, and the desktop shell were not exercised. Accessibility semantics were inspected in the running browser.
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Problem
Since https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/25877 the Settings section nav has been an ARIA tree with one Tab stop. With NVDA in browse mode, every line starts with "Settings sections tree view". Tab reaches the open section and then leaves the nav. The group headings (Agents, Code, Connections) are
aria-hidden, so H skips them. Reproduced on main at 8b44f42 in the web app (desktop renders the same component). Open/settings/worktreesand press Tab from the search field: focus goes to Worktrees, then straight to the page's Close button. The other 19 sections can't be reached with Tab.Change
This follows the direction maintainers approved for the Threads sidebar in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/26562 / https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/26690:
role="tree",role="treeitem",aria-selectedand the roving tab index are gone, so every section is in the Tab order.<h3>headings again, and each group is labelled by its heading witharia-labelledby.aria-current="page"on the open section, and Up/Down/Home/End moving focus between sections without opening them. That logic is now a plain keydown handler insettingsSectionNavigation.ts. It has no Tab-stop state left to track, so it is no longer a hook.[data-settings-section][aria-current="page"]. It used to look for[tabindex="0"], the roving Tab stop. Without the explicit attribute, no section matches that selector, so F6 would land on the search field instead.docs/user/keyboard-focus.mdis updated.Nothing changes visually.
Scope and approval
Fixes #30800
This is the same revert that was approved for the Threads sidebar in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/26562 and merged in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/26690.
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Tests
SettingsSidebarNav.composition.browser.test.tsxgets two new tests:expected [ 'General' ] to deeply equal [ 'General', 'Appearance', …(18) ].the Agents heading is not exposed as a heading.workspaceFocus.browser.test.tsgets "enters the Settings sections on the open section". With the old[tabindex="0"]selector it fails: F6 lands on the area's first button.vp run check:changedpasses: format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests and react compiler.Evidence
Real web app, before = 8b44f42 and after = 34269a5. Each side ran from its own checkout on a fresh database. Environment: headless Chromium 148, no device emulation, DPR 1, 100% zoom, reduced motion.
Stills: whole surface, compared with ImageMagick
compare -metric AE. The before and after frames are pixel-identical, so they are not attached./settings/general, 1440×900, light/settings/general, 1440×900, light, nav scrolled to bottom/settings/general, 1440×900, dark/settings/general, 1440×900, dark, nav scrolled to bottom/settings/worktrees, 390×844, light/settings/worktrees, 390×844, darkWhat else changed: nothing visible.
Accessibility tree, wide nav at 1440×900, from Chromium's
Accessibility.getFullAXTree(light and dark are identical). Before:After:
In the 390 px icon rail, the headings stay visually hidden on both sides, as they were before https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/25877. The groups are still named Agents, Code and Connections through
aria-labelledby.Tab traversal,
/settings/worktreesat 1440×900. Each step shows the time, the key, where focus landed, and its area. Before:After:
The 390 px icon rail behaves the same way. Before, Tab from the rail's Search button reaches only Worktrees and then Close. After, it visits all 20 sections and then Close.
Compact search open, close and reopen, 390×844. The script opens compact search from the rail button, presses Tab 3 times and Shift+Tab 4 times, clicks the page, reopens search with
/, then presses Tab 3 times. On both sides the empty search blurs and collapses on the first Tab, so the Tabs that follow move through the icon rail; that hasn't changed. Before, the Tabs after opening reach Worktrees and then leave the nav (Close, Project scope), and Shift+Tab returns through Worktrees. After, they reach General, Appearance and Chat, and Shift+Tab steps back through Appearance and General to Search. Reopening with/gives the same result on each side.Desktop app (Electron 44, Linux, 1920×1080),
/settings/worktreesUnchanged behaviour, same on both sides:
/settings/worktrees.Not checked: NVDA speech and browse-mode H navigation on Windows. The evidence above is Chromium's and Electron's accessibility tree, which NVDA reads, not a screen-reader recording.
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