feat(a11y): keyboard navigation for listbox popups (LanguageSwitcher, PhoneInput, NavBar) by ujwalbajaj · Pull Request #44 · babelize/babelize-elements

ujwalbajaj · 2026-10-12T19:36:06Z

Description

WAI-ARIA keyboard navigation for the role="listbox" popups in LanguageSwitcher, PhoneInput, and NavBar, following the WAI-ARIA combobox / listbox pattern.

Closes #29

Shared hook — src/lib/use-listbox-navigation.ts, used by all three components.
Keys — ArrowDown / ArrowUp move the highlight (from the search field too) and wrap at both ends; Home / End jump to first / last; Enter selects; Escape closes and returns focus to the trigger; ArrowDown / ArrowUp on the closed trigger opens the menu with the first / last option highlighted.
Focus model — aria-activedescendant on the search fields (now proper role="combobox" + aria-controls); real DOM focus (roving) in the NavBar menu, because a <button> trigger cannot carry aria-activedescendant.
Scrolling — the highlight stays pinned on its row while the list scrolls beneath it, like a native menu, and sticks to the first / last row at the ends of the list. Scrolling is scrollTop-only: the page itself never scrolls (scrollIntoView walked every scrollable ancestor and dragged the window along). A selection below the first screenful is revealed on open.
maxHeight prop (default "15rem") on all three components controls how tall the option list gets before it scrolls.
ARIA fix — role="listbox" moved off the popup wrapper onto the options container (it previously wrapped the search textbox, which is invalid).
Docs — "Keyboard support" tables on all three component pages; the docs preview card no longer clips dropdowns at its own edge (separate commit).

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import { LanguageSwitcher, PhoneInput, NavBar } from "@/registry/components";

// All three accept maxHeight: number | string (default "15rem")
<LanguageSwitcher locales={[{ code: "en" }, { code: "fr" }]} maxHeight={240} />

<PhoneInput onValueChange={setPhone} maxHeight="15rem" />

<NavBar locales={[{ code: "en" }, { code: "fr" }]} links={[{ label: "Docs", href: "/docs" }]} />

Notes

Pinned highlight vs keep-visible: the highlight is anchored to the row it appeared on when the menu opened (clamped into the visible viewport, with the list scrolled to reveal it). Keyboard moves scroll the list to keep the highlight on that row; mouse hover re-highlights without scrolling, so the list never moves out from under the cursor.
Enter on options is suppressed in the hook — the options are <button>s and the browser fires their click, which already runs the select path; handling both would fire onSelect twice.
Roving focus uses focus({ preventScroll: true }) so the browser's own ancestor scrolling doesn't fight (or page-scroll against) the pinned scroll.
Rebased onto main (including the locale-data extraction and the NavBar locale-override fix); the new use-listbox-navigation entry is wired into registryDependencies, the CLI import rewrite, and tsconfig.lib.json.
npm run test:pack can't spawn npm on Windows (execFileSync needs npm.cmd); its checks (ESM/CJS import, SSR render, utils subpath, "use client" survival) were replicated manually and pass — CI on Linux is unaffected.

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New Features
- Added keyboard navigation to country and language menus, including arrow keys, Home/End, Enter, and Escape.
- Added a configurable maximum height for country and language lists, defaulting to 15rem. Lists scroll independently while keeping the active option visible.
- Improved focus handling and accessibility announcements when navigating and selecting options.
Documentation
- Updated component guides with keyboard interaction details and the height setting.
Style
- Refined rounded corners and overflow behavior in embedded previews.

… NavBar (babelize#29) WAI-ARIA listbox/combobox keyboard support via a shared use-listbox-navigation hook: ArrowDown/ArrowUp with wrap-around, Home/End, Enter to select, Escape to close and restore focus, and ArrowDown/ArrowUp on the closed trigger to open the menu. activedescendant focus for the two search fields, roving focus for the NavBar button trigger. The highlight stays pinned on its row while the list scrolls beneath it (scrollTop only, never the page), and a selection below the fold is revealed on open. Adds a maxHeight prop (default 15rem) to all three components, moves role=listbox onto the options container, documents keyboard support on all three MDX pages, and registers the new lib entry for the CLI.

The card's overflow-hidden sliced every dropdown off at the card's own edge, hiding most of the language menu in the demos. The stage and the embedded code panel now round their own bottom corners instead, so popups can overflow the card the way they would in a real app.

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A shared useListboxNavigation hook adds keyboard navigation, focus management, and list scrolling to LanguageSwitcher, PhoneInput, and NavBar. The components add configurable list heights. Tests and documentation cover the interactions, and the registry and CLI support the hook.

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Listbox keyboard navigation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared navigation hook and tests `src/lib/use-listbox-navigation.ts`, `test/use-listbox-navigation.test.tsx`, `test/fake-geometry.ts`, `tsconfig.lib.json`	The hook supports `activedescendant` and `roving` focus strategies, option movement and selection, focus restoration, and list-only scrolling. Tests cover navigation, ARIA props, focus strategies, and scrolling.
Searchable listbox components `src/registry/components/language-switcher.tsx`, `src/registry/components/phone-input.tsx`, `test/language-switcher.test.tsx`, `test/phone-input.test.tsx`, `content/docs/components/inputs/phone-input.mdx`, `content/docs/components/language-switchers/language-switcher.mdx`	`LanguageSwitcher` and `PhoneInput` use the hook for search-field combobox navigation and selection. Both components expose `maxHeight`, defaulting to `"15rem"`. Tests and documentation cover keyboard behavior, focus, and scrolling.
NavBar language menu `src/registry/components/navbar.tsx`, `test/navbar.test.tsx`, `content/docs/components/navigation/navbar.mdx`	The language menu uses roving focus, separate desktop and mobile trigger refs, and a configurable `maxHeight` that defaults to `"15rem"`. Tests and documentation cover navigation, selection, focus, and scrolling.
Registry and CLI support `src/registry/registry.ts`, `src/cli/index.ts`, `content/docs/getting-started/contributing.mdx`, `content/docs/getting-started/shadcn-cli.mdx`	The registry adds the hook and its component dependencies. The CLI rewrites the hook import to the configured `lib` alias. Setup and contributor guidance identify the shared hook.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant LanguageSwitcher
  participant useListboxNavigation
  participant Locale
  User->>LanguageSwitcher: Send keyboard event
  LanguageSwitcher->>useListboxNavigation: Pass event and navigation options
  useListboxNavigation-->>LanguageSwitcher: Provide active option
  User->>LanguageSwitcher: Select active option
  LanguageSwitcher->>useListboxNavigation: Request selection
  useListboxNavigation->>Locale: Invoke selection callback

Suggested reviewers: anjali-nayak-prog

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6e1d4

With the country menu open, keyboard navigation can interfere with editing the phone number. This is a localized issue to fix before merging or accept with owner awareness.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		Issue `#29`’s shared hook and keyboard navigation are implemented for all three components. The tests cover navigation keys, selection, dismissal, focus behavior, and ARIA state. However, `PhoneInput` s…	Restore focus to the country trigger after selecting an option in `PhoneInput`, and update the click- and Enter-selection tests to verify trigger focus.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 38.46% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 13 files. (1 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: shared keyboard navigation for listbox popups in LanguageSwitcher, PhoneInput, and NavBar.
Out of Scope Changes check		The `maxHeight` props, popup scrolling, ARIA changes, registry and CLI wiring, tests, and component documentation support the listbox-navigation work in `#29`. The docs preview overflow changes allow th…

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Issue #29’s shared hook and keyboard navigation are implemented for all three components. The tests cover navigation keys, selection, dismissal, focus behavior, and ARIA state. However, PhoneInput sets restoreFocusOnSelect: false and focuses the phone-number input after selection. Its tests require that behavior. Issue #29 requires focus to return to the trigger after selection.

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- Around line 300-307: In the Enter-key handler, ignore the event when its
native event is composing or its keyCode is 229, before calling
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The Enter that commits a composition in the search field (pinyin, Japanese, Korean) selected the highlighted option and closed the menu. Composing keydowns report isComposing on the native event, with the legacy 229 keyCode as the fallback for browsers that never set the flag. Caught by CodeRabbit on babelize#44.

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The hook, the registry and CLI wiring, the ARIA fix and the docs all look right. All checks pass locally, and the preview-card overflow-hidden removal causes no horizontal overflow on any component page at 390px. One regression blocks merge.

PhoneInput: focus no longer moves to the number field after picking a country

On main, handleCountrySelect focused inputRef after a pick, so the user could type the number straight away. Now nav.select → close(true) returns focus to the country trigger.

After click(trigger) → click(option), document.activeElement is:

branch	focused element
`main`	`INPUT[type=tel]` "Phone number"
this PR	`BUTTON` "Select country"

Returning focus to the trigger is right for LanguageSwitcher and NavBar. For PhoneInput, the next step after choosing a country is typing the number.

Required

Let a selection skip the trigger focus restore, e.g. select(index, { restoreFocus: false }) or a restoreFocusOnSelect option on the hook. Then have PhoneInput focus inputRef in onSelect.
Escape should still return focus to the country trigger, which is correct there.
Add a test asserting the phone input has focus after picking a country by click and by Enter.

…a country Picking a country used to focus the flag trigger, but typing the number is the next step - main focused the tel input and so should the picker. The hook gains restoreFocusOnSelect (default true) since its internal Enter path calls select() too and a per-call argument could not reach it; PhoneInput opts out and focuses the number field in onSelect. Escape still returns focus to the country trigger. Caught in review on babelize#44.

ujwalbajaj · 2026-10-12T21:31:25Z

@sapatmohit re the PhoneInput focus regression in your review - fixed in 6e1d4a2. I went with the hook-option shape you suggested: useListboxNavigation now takes restoreFocusOnSelect (default true). A per-call select(index, { restoreFocus: false }) argument alone would not have covered Enter, since the hook-internal Enter path calls select() itself. PhoneInput passes restoreFocusOnSelect: false and focuses inputRef in onSelect; LanguageSwitcher and NavBar keep the default. Escape still returns focus to the country trigger (close restore is unchanged). Tests now assert the tel input has focus after a pick by click and by Enter, and the Enter row of the phone-input keyboard docs was updated.

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🟡 Minor · Keep number-field keys out of country navigation. · phone-input.tsx:183

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep number-field keys out of country navigation.

When the country menu is open, clicking the number field leaves it open. ArrowUp, ArrowDown, Home, and End can prevent normal number-field editing. Enter can select the active country. Ignore these keys when event.target === inputRef.current, but continue handling Escape so the number field can still close the menu.
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-      onKeyDown={nav.onKeyDown}
+      onKeyDown={(event) => {
+        if (
+          event.target === inputRef.current &&
+          ["ArrowUp", "ArrowDown", "Home", "End", "Enter"].includes(event.key)
+        ) {
+          return;
+        }
+        nav.onKeyDown(event);
+      }}
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Update the number field’s onKeyDown handler in the component using nav.onKeyDown
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…menu The click-outside handler only dismisses on clicks outside the container, so focusing the still-visible number field while the menu is open let the listbox swallow its keys: arrows and Home / End were preventDefault-ed (caret movement stolen) and Enter selected the highlighted country. The container handler now skips those five keys when the target is the number field and the menu is open; Escape and everything else still reach the listbox. Caught by CodeRabbit on babelize#44.

ujwalbajaj · 2026-10-12T21:48:33Z

Re the out-of-diff finding on src/registry/components/phone-input.tsx (number-field keys reaching the open country menu) - fixed in 6282569. Verified the path first: the click-outside handler only dismisses on clicks outside the container, so focusing the still-visible number field while the menu is open made the open-state branch of nav.onKeyDown swallow its keys (arrows / Home / End were preventDefault-ed, Enter selected the highlighted country). The container handler now skips ArrowUp, ArrowDown, Home, End, and Enter when the target is the number field and the menu is open; Escape and all other keys still forward to nav.onKeyDown. Added a regression test: open the menu, focus the number field by click, fire arrows / End / Enter - the menu stays open and no selection fires - then Escape closes it and returns focus to the country trigger. 163/163 tests, lint, typecheck, prettier all clean. (coderabbit review --agent skipped: CLI not installed on this machine.)

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PhoneInput focus fix verified (number field focused after pick by click and Enter); number-field key handling fixed with regression test. Approved.

sapatmohit · 2026-10-13T13:05:42Z

Merged. Thanks again, @ujwalbajaj.

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