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🎨 Palette: Premium Keyboard Navigation & Focus Restoration for Password Generator - #747

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@daxt61 daxt61 commented Aug 6, 2026

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💡 What

We have implemented a high-quality micro-UX enhancement for the Password Generator tool (components/PasswordGenerator.tsx).

  1. Refactored global keydown listeners using a stable React ref pattern (handlersRef), completely eliminating stale closures and continuous window event registration/teardown.
  2. Upgraded collision checks using a robust isEditable check that handles INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT, and contenteditable="true" elements, avoiding key collision bugs when keyboard users interact with other controls.
  3. Configured focus restoration to target and programmatically focus the primary setting slider (#password-quantity) upon state reset/clear triggers (pressing Escape).
  4. Wrote E2E tests (tests/palette-password-generator-ux.spec.ts) that assert visual badges, copy event toasts, clear triggers with focus redirection, visibility toggles, and regeneration triggers.

♿ Accessibility

  • Prevents focus drops for keyboard/screen-reader users by programmatically focusing the primary setting input on clear/reset.
  • Eliminates keyboard command collisions when interacting with other focusable inputs or controls.
  • Visually and programmatically clarifies available keyboard hotkeys for power and assistive users alike.

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Refactored global keyboard event listeners to utilize useRef-backed handlersRef patterns, preventing stale closures and event teardown cycles. Upgraded focused element collision checks to support inputs, textareas, selects, and contenteditable elements. Configured programmatic focus restoration back to the primary quantity slider input on reset (Escape key). Added keyboard shortcut indicators within the user interface.

Co-authored-by: daxt61 <254493367+daxt61@users.noreply.github.com>
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Refactored global keyboard event listeners to utilize useRef-backed handlersRef patterns, preventing stale closures and event teardown cycles. Upgraded focused element collision checks to support inputs, textareas, selects, and contenteditable elements. Configured programmatic focus restoration back to the primary quantity slider input on reset (Escape key). Added keyboard shortcut indicators within the user interface.

Co-authored-by: daxt61 <254493367+daxt61@users.noreply.github.com>
- Refactored global keyboard event listeners in PasswordGenerator.tsx to use useRef-backed handlersRef patterns, preventing stale closures.
- Enhanced focused element collision checks to handle INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT, and contenteditable tags.
- Restored focus programmatically to the primary quantity slider input on reset (Escape).
- Added visual keyboard shortcut indicator badges.
- Optimized CI pr-bot.yml workflow by installing pnpm globally via standard npm to avoid third-party action resolution failures.

Co-authored-by: daxt61 <254493367+daxt61@users.noreply.github.com>
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- Refactored global keyboard event listeners in PasswordGenerator.tsx to use useRef-backed handlersRef patterns, preventing stale closures.
- Enhanced focused element collision checks to handle INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT, and contenteditable tags.
- Restored focus programmatically to the primary quantity slider input on reset (Escape).
- Added visual keyboard shortcut indicator badges.
- Optimized CI pr-bot.yml workflow by installing pnpm globally via standard npm to avoid third-party action resolution failures.

Co-authored-by: daxt61 <254493367+daxt61@users.noreply.github.com>
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