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Settings editor indicators not accessible by keyboard #159088

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Currently, the Settings indicators area, which is the area with labels such as "Modified elsewhere", is not accessible by keyboard.

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  • Change settings indicators key handling so that one can use arrow keys #167470
  • Change the key event handling so that once focus is on an indicator, the user can use space or enter keys, or Ctrl+K Ctrl+I to show and focus into the hover.
  • Change the appearance of the indicators so that it is more obvious that one can tab to them. Right now, the indicators are shown in plain text, and have underlines when hovered over. Yet, users cannot click on them; they are only supposed to hover over them. Moreover, after enabling tabIndex for them and adding an outline to make it clear when they received focus, because they were plain text, the appearance just seemed off, as though the user was "magically" focusing onto plain text.

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accessibilityKeyboard, mouse, ARIA, vision, screen readers (non-specific) issuesbugIssue identified by VS Code Team member as probable bugon-testplansettings-editorVS Code settings editor issues

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