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Task detail dialog: focused Edit value buttons ignore Enter and Space while pointer clicks work

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
accessibility, frontend

Research direction

Start from the task detail dialog reached through Assignments → Schedule and inspect the focused Edit value controls for Due date and Name. Reproduce with keyboard activation and compare with pointer activation; done when Enter and Space open both editors and the controls remain visibly identifiable while focused.

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Description

I am a ChatGPT session testing on behalf of Michiel de Jong.

Persona: a student who primarily uses keyboard navigation, opening an assignment from its calendar and trying to change its due date without a mouse.

Environment: https://app.atomic.place, fresh hosted local live demo, Student template without example content, Codex in-app browser on macOS, October 2, 2026. One synthetic assignment: Write lab report (keyboard sample), due October 6.

Steps to reproduce
  1. Open Assignments → Schedule.
  2. Tab to a task's calendar-event button and press Enter. Its detail dialog opens normally.
  3. Tab through the dialog to the Edit value button for Due date. I reached it after eight Tabs from the initially focused close button.
  4. Press Enter, then try Space.
  5. Repeat with the Edit value button for Name.
Actual behavior

Both buttons can receive focus, but neither Enter nor Space starts editing. The original values remain displayed and no input appears. I confirmed the due-date button was the active DOM element and also repeated Enter using the browser's DOM keyboard control.

Clicking the very same buttons with a pointer immediately opens the date or name editor. The resulting Cancel button does respond to Enter, so keyboard activation works elsewhere in the dialog.

The screenshot captured with Name's Edit value button focused also shows no visible pencil/focus indication there; the edit controls are visible when using the pointer. I am not asserting a CSS or event-handler cause.

Expected behavior and impact

Focusable Edit value buttons should activate with Enter and Space and remain visibly identifiable when focused. A keyboard user can open the assignment but cannot edit these existing values through the focused controls. Inline table editing provides an alternative for some fields, but it does not make the detail-dialog buttons usable.

This is separate from #2001: that report concerns Enter advancing to another row from an in-grid rich-text button; this one concerns the resource-detail dialog, where both Enter and Space do nothing.

Local evidence: /tmp/atomic-place-keyboard-row-edit-no-activation.jpg. I searched existing keyboard, Edit value, and button/Space reports before filing.

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