Fix keyboard navigation for ConnectedAnimation ItemsRepeater sample - #2206
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The 'Connected animation with ItemsRepeater' sample rendered each item as a non-focusable Grid that only handled Tapped, so keyboard users could not focus, navigate between, or invoke the list items (accessibility issue, MAS 2.1.1). Host each item in a chrome-less Button so items are keyboard-focusable and can be invoked with Enter/Space (and expose an Invoke automation pattern for Narrator), enable XYFocusKeyboardNavigation on the ItemsRepeater for arrow-key navigation, and return focus to the activated item on back-navigation. The displayed sample source (ConnectedAnimationItemsrepeater.txt) is updated to match. Work item: https://dev.azure.com/microsoft/OS/_workitems/edit/62821652 Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Copilot-Session: a849b1a6-6419-4043-85aa-444dc6174049
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| <!-- ItemsRepeater has no built-in focus/selection, so host each item in a | ||
| Button to make it keyboard-focusable and invokable with Enter/Space. |
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Whether this means each tab navigates to next item? Ideally navigation through list is supposed to work with arrow keys and tab navigation have to take to the next control I guess. Please confirm on the experience here
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Godly T.Alias (@godlytalias)
The behavior is that I can navigate through arrow key also, not just using tabs
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The 'Connected animation with ItemsRepeater' sample rendered each item as a non-focusable Grid that only handled Tapped, so keyboard users could not focus, navigate between, or invoke the list items (accessibility issue, MAS 2.1.1).
Host each item in a chrome-less Button so items are keyboard-focusable and can be invoked with Enter/Space (and expose an Invoke automation pattern for Narrator), enable XYFocusKeyboardNavigation on the ItemsRepeater for arrow-key navigation, and return focus to the activated item on back-navigation. The displayed sample source (ConnectedAnimationItemsrepeater.txt) is updated to match.
Work item: https://dev.azure.com/microsoft/OS/_workitems/edit/62821652
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