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[Android] Keyboard accessibility improvements #24359

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In order to meet our accessibility requirements we need to have full support for keyboard navigation. The Touchable components works with press/tap with a finger, but doesn't respond to 'enter' when using a keyboard. Navigation works fine. This PR adds an onClick listener to touchable views that have the onPress prop defined.

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[Android] [Added] - Add View.OnClickListener to Touchable components when onPress is defined

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Add any Touchable component with an onPress callback. Use a keyboard and navigate to the touchable component and press the 'enter' key. Expected behavior is that the onPress callback is called.

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cpojer commented Apr 8, 2019

Thanks so much for the PR! Seems like our bot is unhappy, do you mind fixing it up?

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To note up front, I am not very familiar with React Native's touchable elements, so I may be way off here, but I'm not sure that I follow along as to why we need to define a new "clickable" prop to make these work correctly.

It seems like anything that has an onClick or onPress listener should already be setting the View's focusable and clickable attributes to true. If that isn't happening already, should we not just fix that rather than adding a new prop?

@cpojer - I'm not sure who is most familiar with the ReactNative side of things here, but from an accessibility standpoint setting clickable/focusable on the View is helpful. I don't see why we wouldn't just want to always do this for any view that is clickable/touchable though.

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cpojer commented Apr 11, 2019

Thanks @blavalla!

@sweggersen what do you think about making this a default?

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sweggersen commented Apr 11, 2019

@blavalla @cpojer Thanks for great feedback. Yeah, I think that it makes sense to have it on by default.

Let me get back to you.

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cpojer commented Apr 11, 2019

Awesome, would you mind making those changes?

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Thank you :)

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@cpojer is landing this pull request. If you are a Facebook employee, you can view this diff on Phabricator.

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I want to share some details about some of the work happening inside Facebook and how it relates to this change.

  • Supporting multiple input types is a problem for all platforms.
  • The web platform has designed APIs for this purpose.
  • The concept of "click" on the web is essentially legacy, and touch events still trigger onClick.
  • React Native for Web supports multiple input types but relies on many more events than onClick (i.e., onMouseDown, onKeyPress, etc.).
  • Internally we're experimenting with a new React event system. On the web that relies on Pointer Events and would eschew the need to use onClick. The general idea is to move away from input-specific event types and instead use onPress, etc., with the event object containing information about the pointer type that was used.
  • Internally we're experimenting with web implementations of View and Text that shed all the event props found in React Native (in favour of the new event system) and introduce a focusable prop to mark a View as being able to receive (or not) user-initiated focus by any input type (all Views are programmatically focusable). In this way you could set focusable={false} and retain all the mouse/touch functionality but hide the View from inputs like keyboards that first need to focus an element before it can be interacted with. That's an important pattern on the web where you might want to make something like an avatar interactive to pointers, but hidden from keyboards if the functionality is redundant, i.e., if there's also an interactive user name that performs the same action.

Given all that I'd suggest we do something like rename clickable to focusable and decouple it from onClick. If onClick here is meant to be used for mouse as well as keyboard, that's probably a good enough prop for now to unblock other input types on Android. We'll hopefully address this properly in RN in the future with the new event system.

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Thanks for the write up!

About the decouple of focusable from onClick, what do you suggest?

The Android default onClick listener works for all input types 'keyboard', 'touch', 'mouse', which is what we need support for. Before this change, only 'touch' and 'mouse' events would work.

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Naming this "focusable" could definitely lead to some confusion here due to Android's already confusing separate concepts of keyboard focusability and accessibility focusability.

Setting "focusable=true" on a standard Android view will set it to be both keyboard and accessibility focusable, but if this is property is meant to only trigger keyboard focusability, we should probably be more explicit in its naming.

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About the decouple of focusable from onClick, what do you suggest?

I was thinking that the clickable/focusable feature is something we need independent of how events are handled. So in the future we might not have event handlers on View but we'll still need to mark views as being able to receive user-initiated focus following a mouse, touch, or keyboard event.

Setting "focusable=true" on a standard Android view will set it to be both keyboard and accessibility focusable, but if this is property is meant to only trigger keyboard focusability, we should probably be more explicit in its naming.

What is "accessibility focusable" on Android? The way we're using this on web is to allow the element to receive focus following any user action from any pointer device. It happens to also be required to support interactions on a view (with seems to overlap with this PR for Android). There might be a better name though…interactive? IIRC accessible is also equivalent to Android's native focusable!

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To answer what "accessibility focusable" is requires a bit of a history lesson, so bear with me.

In the early days of Android many devices had trackballs or d-pads as an alternate non-touch way to interact with the device. To the system, these keys worked much like external keyboards. To allow your UI to be interactive you had to make sure it was focusable in "non touch mode", and the best way to do this was to set focusable="true". You would generally want all interactive elements to be focusable in this way, but wouldn't want non-interactive elements to be focusable, since it would be annoying to have to press keys to get past all of the non-interactive content.

Then later on Google decided to add a real accessibility system to Android, and built the Talkback screen reader as well as other accessibility services like Switch Access and Select to Speak. Some of these services (like Talkback) can only really be useful if you can focus on non-interactive content, like plain text. Otherwise, this content could be totally hidden from a user with a vision impairment. This meant that they couldn't simply use the same focus system used for D-Pad's and keyboards, and they had to come up with a way that you could have an element be focusable for accessibility, but not focusable for keyboard users. This is what I mean when I say "accessibility focusable".

Unfortunately, they didn't simply add a property like accessibilityFocusable and instead derived whether or not something would be accessibility focusable by looking at the combination of multiple different properties (click handlers, the focusable property, if the view was a leaf node, if it had focusable ancestors, etc.). It wasn't until Android Pie that they cleaned this up and added setScreenReaderFocusable to the View class.

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Thanks, I think it makes sense to call it focusable. Who should do the work? Do we just update this PR?

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Please send a new PR that changes everything. We can do it all in a single commit :)

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If you'd like to write the patch that would be great! A new PR is best since this one has already been merged.

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Hey @sweggersen: just wanted to ping you and ask whether you could send a PR and rename this to focusable?

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It's on my list. I'll do it this week.

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necolas commented May 24, 2019

I left a comment on the diff sharing some context about how we're looking to solve similar use cases for the web. It might be worth adjusting this change. Let me know your thoughts

facebook-github-bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 21, 2019
Summary:
This is a follow up PR to #24359. There's a good thread in the mentioned PR for more background for why I'm doing this change. Essentially `focusable` makes more sense since it is about whether a view can receive user-initiated focus from a pointer or keyboard.
Pull Request resolved: #25274

Differential Revision: D15873739

Pulled By: cpojer

fbshipit-source-id: 0f526bb99ecdc68131dfc10200a5d44c2ef75b33
M-i-k-e-l pushed a commit to M-i-k-e-l/react-native that referenced this pull request Mar 10, 2020
Summary:
This is a follow up PR to facebook#24359. There's a good thread in the mentioned PR for more background for why I'm doing this change. Essentially `focusable` makes more sense since it is about whether a view can receive user-initiated focus from a pointer or keyboard.
Pull Request resolved: facebook#25274

Differential Revision: D15873739

Pulled By: cpojer

fbshipit-source-id: 0f526bb99ecdc68131dfc10200a5d44c2ef75b33
adanoff pushed a commit to adanoff/react-native that referenced this pull request May 23, 2023
Summary:
AFAICT this was added in facebook#24359 to support accessibility, however per [the spec](https://www.w3.org/TR/uievents/#event-type-click) the click event is supposed to bubble up.

This change updates the necessary configs so that `click` is treated as a bubbling event and not as a direct-dispatch event.

Changelog: [Android] [Breaking] - W3CPointerEvents: change click event from direct to bubbling

Reviewed By: yungsters

Differential Revision: D45745906

fbshipit-source-id: 970ebf205725484d944e5276b04c61a3797bf858
adanoff pushed a commit to adanoff/react-native that referenced this pull request May 24, 2023
…k#37539)

Summary:
Pull Request resolved: facebook#37539

AFAICT this was added in facebook#24359 to support accessibility, however per [the spec](https://www.w3.org/TR/uievents/#event-type-click) the click event is supposed to bubble up.

This change updates the necessary configs so that `click` is treated as a bubbling event and not as a direct-dispatch event.

Changelog: [Android] [Breaking] - W3CPointerEvents: change click event from direct to bubbling

Reviewed By: yungsters

Differential Revision: D45745906

fbshipit-source-id: 3c23d4ec82570e43eefd7295d301601396962ef0
adanoff pushed a commit to adanoff/react-native that referenced this pull request May 25, 2023
…k#37539)

Summary:
Pull Request resolved: facebook#37539

AFAICT this was added in facebook#24359 to support accessibility, however per [the spec](https://www.w3.org/TR/uievents/#event-type-click) the click event is supposed to bubble up.

This change updates the necessary configs so that `click` is treated as a bubbling event and not as a direct-dispatch event.

Changelog: [Android] [Breaking] - W3CPointerEvents: change click event from direct to bubbling

Reviewed By: yungsters

Differential Revision: D45745906

fbshipit-source-id: 94ea6c5a84120f35a4fa6044b08462b0cb1a77e7
adanoff pushed a commit to adanoff/react-native that referenced this pull request May 25, 2023
…k#37539)

Summary:
Pull Request resolved: facebook#37539

AFAICT this was added in facebook#24359 to support accessibility, however per [the spec](https://www.w3.org/TR/uievents/#event-type-click) the click event is supposed to bubble up.

This change updates the necessary configs so that `click` is treated as a bubbling event and not as a direct-dispatch event.

Changelog: [Android] [Breaking] - W3CPointerEvents: change click event from direct to bubbling

Reviewed By: yungsters

Differential Revision: D45745906

fbshipit-source-id: 62ed0c8811bc6665ca7ba663d8aedeab68b17a44
facebook-github-bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 25, 2023
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: #37539

AFAICT this was added in #24359 to support accessibility, however per [the spec](https://www.w3.org/TR/uievents/#event-type-click) the click event is supposed to bubble up.

This change updates the necessary configs so that `click` is treated as a bubbling event and not as a direct-dispatch event.

Changelog: [Android] [Breaking] - W3CPointerEvents: change click event from direct to bubbling

Reviewed By: yungsters

Differential Revision: D45745906

fbshipit-source-id: 2649375b322037fe7ab20b800daae150640dbede
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