Zotero 8 beta: Keyboard accessibility of "More" in Advanced Search

When I use keyboard navigation in the Zotero Advanced search window (on Windows), I can't access the item types under "More" -- I can get to all the standard item types from "Title" to "Any Field" using the up arrow, but the field doesn't behave like a dropdown and when I use the down arrow to get to "More" I can't actually select More to get the the full list -- Space (which I think is what should work) doesn't do anything, neither does right arrow or return.

If I use the Mouse once to fold out the dropdown menu, I can use the right arrow on "More" to get to the full list, but I couldn't find a way to get the dropdown menu to actually show in full without the mouse.

This is 8.0.2-beta.2+56cd4713f (64-bit) in Troubleshooting mode. Let me know if the above isn't clear and I'll record a video, hard to show with screenshots.

  • dstillman Zotero Team
    Alt-Down to open the menu (though we can make Space work), Down to move to More, Right to open the menu.

    Just changing via the arrow keys without opening the menu is a thing on Windows (and not on macOS), and the interaction with More there is weird. I'm not really sure what the correct behavior is. But if we have Space open menus, we can probably make it open More as a menu when you press Space on it regardless.
  • Ah, thanks, that works (sorry, I missed mjthoraval's post)
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