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Three keyboard-accessibility fixes for the about/settings overlay opened from the cog button in the mobile menu drawer:

1. Focus trap. The overlay covers the sidebar visually, but stayed inside the drawer's focus scope: Tab kept cycling through the obscured sidebar underneath. The overlay content is now wrapped in its own react-aria FocusScope (contain + autoFocus + restoreFocus), nested inside the drawer modal's scope: opening moves focus to the Back button, Tab cycles only through the overlay, and closing returns focus to the cog button.

2. Focus indicators. The Github/Documentation rows and the npm/yarn/pnpm package-manager tabs were hand-rolled styled.a/styled.button elements with all: unset, which strips the focus outline entirely, and the DS Link anchor form had no focus-visible outline either — it was impossible to see what was focused. They now use design-system components:

  • the link rows are built on ActionList (ActionList.Link), same as the desktop cog menu;
  • the package-manager tabs compose the DS TabList/TabPanel (via useTabsState): real tablist/tab/tabpanel semantics with arrow-key navigation and a single Tab stop, the DS tab focus ring, and the underline-tab look — the old tabs conveyed the selection through border color alone and each was a separate Tab stop;
  • the upgrade command snippet gets a copy button (shared useCopyButton hook), which is both a usability win and gives each tab panel focusable content, so react-aria never has to make the bare panel a tab stop;
  • the Link component's anchor form gets the same :focus-visible outline its button form already had (this benefits every Link in the UI).

3. Tab order skipped every other element. The built manager carries two copies of @react-aria/focus: one inside the storybook/internal/components bundle (used by Modal) and one bundled into the manager chunk (used by the overlay's direct import). Focus scopes from separate module copies cannot nest — each copy has its own scope tree and active-scope state — so both contain scopes advanced focus on every Tab press, stepping by two and skipping alternate elements. FocusScope is now re-exported from storybook/internal/components and the manager imports it from there, so both scopes come from the same instance and nest correctly. (manager/globals/exports.ts is regenerated accordingly.)

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Testing

The changes in this PR are covered in the following automated tests:

  • stories (AboutFocusTrapped in MobileNavigation.stories.tsx asserts every stop of the Tab cycle in order — including arrow-key navigation within the tablist — so escaping the overlay, skipping an element, or broken tab semantics fail the test; run via the Storybook Vitest project)
  • unit tests
  • integration tests
  • end-to-end tests

Note: the Vitest browser environment builds everything from source with a single @react-aria/focus copy, so the double-stepping only manifests against the built manager — verify it manually per below.

Manual testing

  1. Run the internal Storybook UI: cd code && yarn storybook:ui
  2. Open it in a browser and narrow the window below 600px (or use a mobile device emulation)
  3. Open the sidebar via the bottom bar menu button, then click the cog ("About Storybook") button in the sidebar header
  4. Press Tab repeatedly: focus starts on "Back" and moves through every stop in order — Github, Documentation, the package-manager tablist (arrow keys switch npm/yarn/pnpm), the snippet's copy button, Chromatic, Storybook Community — then wraps to "Back"; nothing in the sidebar underneath is reached and no stop is skipped
  5. Every focused element shows a visible indicator
  6. Click the copy button: the clipboard receives the command for the selected package manager and the button briefly shows a checkmark
  7. Click "Back": focus returns to the cog button

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  • Add or update documentation reflecting your changes
  • If you are deprecating/removing a feature, make sure to update
    MIGRATION.MD

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Accessibility component updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
About panel focus and shared exports
code/core/src/manager/components/mobile/about/MobileAbout.tsx, code/core/src/components/index.ts, code/core/src/manager/globals/exports.ts
The about panel now uses shared FocusScope and ActionList components. Focus is contained, autofocus is enabled, and custom link wrappers are removed.
Focus containment story coverage
code/core/src/manager/components/mobile/navigation/MobileNavigation.stories.tsx
The stories open the about panel, provide the version API, and verify focus order, tab navigation, and focus restoration.
Shared link and upgrade controls
code/core/src/components/components/typography/link/link.tsx, code/core/src/manager/components/upgrade/UpgradeBlock.tsx
Link focus outlines apply to all variants. Upgrade commands use shared tabs and provide copy buttons with copied-state icons.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MobileNavigation
  participant MobileAbout
  participant FocusScope
  MobileNavigation->>MobileAbout: open about panel
  MobileAbout->>FocusScope: autofocus and contain focus
  FocusScope->>MobileAbout: cycle focus through controls
  FocusScope->>MobileNavigation: restore focus on close
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Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the mobile accessibility change because it improves keyboard focus, tab order, and visible focus indicators across the about overlay and upgrade controls.

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The new upgrade-command copy control may lose its accessible name after copying and may not handle unavailable clipboard access gracefully. These are bounded accessibility and interaction risks in the upgrade panel.

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Sidnioulz force-pushed the claude/mobile-nav-focus-modal-bugs-t88egk-1-about-focus-trap branch from deceb33 to 6e9a20f Compare September 11, 2026 11:53
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The about/settings overlay opened from the mobile menu drawer covers the
sidebar but stayed inside the drawer's focus scope, so tabbing kept
cycling through the obscured sidebar underneath. Wrap the overlay content
in its own FocusScope (contain + autoFocus + restoreFocus), which
react-aria nests inside the drawer's scope: Tab stays within the overlay,
and closing it returns focus to the button that opened it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0169Un4YR1Bvn5ATuAeXidrZ
The overlay's rows and package-manager tabs were hand-rolled elements
with `all: unset`, which strips the focus outline entirely. Rebuild the
Github/Documentation rows on ActionList, the npm/yarn/pnpm tabs on
ToggleButton, and give the Link component's anchor form the same
focus-visible outline its button form already had.

Tabbing also skipped every other element: the built manager carries two
copies of @react-aria/focus (one inside the components bundle for Modal,
one in the manager chunk), and focus scopes from separate copies cannot
nest, so both scopes advanced focus on each Tab press. Re-export
FocusScope from storybook/internal/components so manager code shares the
Modal's instance, and assert every stop of the Tab cycle in the story.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0169Un4YR1Bvn5ATuAeXidrZ
They are tabs semantically — mutually exclusive, each driving the code
block below — so compose the DS TabList and TabPanel via useTabsState
instead of a row of toggle buttons. This restores the underline tab
look, adds tablist/tab/tabpanel semantics with arrow-key navigation and
a single Tab stop, and drops the local selection state.

A panel without focusable content is itself the tab stop, so give
TabPanel a focus-visible outline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0169Un4YR1Bvn5ATuAeXidrZ
Gives the code block a one-click copy affordance, using the shared
useCopyButton hook. It also means every tab panel in the about overlay
has focusable content, so the panel itself is never the tab stop and no
longer needs a focus style of its own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0169Un4YR1Bvn5ATuAeXidrZ
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