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Improve keyboard navigation on boards

Nick Leonard requested to merge nl-board-focus into master

What does this MR do and why?

Add keyboard nav to boards

  • Treats cards as focusable buttons
  • Adds up and down traversal within list
  • Adds left and right traversal across lists

Follow ups

  • Add support for moving items via keyboard shortcuts

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Before After
flat_before.gif flat.gif
swimlanes_before.gif swimlanes.gif
epics_before.gif epics.gif

How to set up and validate locally

Numbered steps to set up and validate the change are strongly suggested.

  1. Open a board
  2. Tab to focus on a list card
  3. Once focused within a list, navigate via arrow keys
  4. Open an item using Enter (should be same as clicking the card)
  5. Tab still allows focusing inner elements (should not be focus trapped)

Relates #467707 Closes #491629 (closed)

Edited by Nick Leonard

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