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💡 What: Added missing keyboard accessibility attributes (role="button", tabindex="0", title, aria-label, and data-on-keydown="keyActivate") and bound the element to data-action="showSettingsAccount" for the user-pill element in the topbar.

🎯 Why: The user-pill visually acts like a button (with hover styling and a cursor: pointer), but previously had no semantic role, wasn't focusable, and lacked an actual click handler or keyboard action binding. Adding these allows it to function as a direct shortcut to the Account Settings pane, both for mouse and keyboard users.

📸 Before/After:

  • Before: The element could not be focused with the Tab key, and clicking it did nothing.
  • After: The element can be focused using Tab (showing a focus ring), can be activated by pressing Enter, and directly opens the Account Settings view. Screen readers will now announce it as "Account settings, button".

♿ Accessibility:

  • Added role="button" to provide semantic meaning.
  • Added tabindex="0" to make it focusable in the document flow.
  • Added aria-label="Account settings" and title="Account settings" for screen reader and hover tooltip support.
  • Added data-on-keydown="keyActivate" with data-args-keydown='["$event","$el"]' to support keyboard activation (Enter/Space).

PR created automatically by Jules for task 5600173601443770284 started by @Randomname653

The `#user-pill` element had `cursor: pointer` in CSS, indicating it was interactive, but it lacked `role="button"`, `tabindex="0"`, a `data-on-keydown` handler, and an actual `data-action` click handler.

Added the necessary attributes so it functions as a keyboard-accessible shortcut to Account Settings.

Co-authored-by: Randomname653 <127677734+Randomname653@users.noreply.github.com>
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Thanks - built into main in this codebase's idiom as 32cf008 (lands with the next push): the pill is a keyboard-reachable button to Settings > Account. One change against this branch: passing the pill to showView marked the pill active and left the sidebar unmarked, so every sidebar entry now names its view (data-view) and showView lights up the right one whoever opened the view. That also revived seven callers still using .sb-item[onclick*=...] selectors, and div buttons got a visible focus ring.

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Thanks - built into main in this codebase's idiom as 32cf008 (lands with the next push): the pill is a keyboard-reachable button to Settings > Account. One change against this branch: passing the pill to showView marked the pill active and left the sidebar unmarked, so every sidebar entry now names its view (data-view) and showView lights up the right one whoever opened the view. That also revived seven callers still using .sb-item[onclick*=...] selectors, and div buttons got a visible focus ring.

Understood. Acknowledging that this work is now obsolete as it has been built into main with the mentioned improvements.

Randomname653 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
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From PR #129 (Jules), built in this codebase's idiom: the pill in the top
bar is a button (role, tabindex, keyActivate, aria-label) that opens the
account pane. The PR passed the pill itself to showView, which marked it
active and left the sidebar unmarked; every sidebar entry now names its
view in data-view and showView lights the entry up whoever opened the view.
That also revives seven callers that still looked for .sb-item[onclick*=…],
a selector for handlers that have not existed since the data-action move.
Div buttons had no keyboard focus ring at all: [role="button"]:focus-visible.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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