Project: SWT
Bug 16333 accessibility - tab key in dialog boxes
Reported: 2002-05-17 20:13:41 | Status: resolved fixed

Windows standard is that tab and shift+tab keys within a dialog box move the focus to the next previous control even if the control is in the same group. But in eclipse if there are several controls in the same tab group one is forced to use arrows keys to switch focus among them; Users of accessibility devices such as screen readers are not used to this behaviour which, if not known, could make them to ignore the existence of controls in a dialog box because they are completely skipped tabbing around. So I propose that tab and shift+tab move focus even to controls belonging to the same group.

Files changed in fix:
bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/win32/org/eclipse/swt/widgets/Button.java