Popover - When clicked outside of a focus trap, focus is not returned to the element prior to the focus trap

[annelfitz]

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Summary

When the esc key is pressed when the calcite popover is open, it will always close the popover, even if the focus is elsewhere in the web page.

When clicked outside of the focus trap (like on the map for example), we would expect the esc key to no longer affect the popover, at least until the focus is returned to that element.

Ideal behavior:

• When escape is pressed, focus is returned to the element prior to the focus trap
• When clicked outside of a focus trap, focus is not returned to the element prior to the focus trap

Currently, in both of the scenarios above, focus is returned to the element prior to the focus trap. It seems like we may want different things depending on if the focus trap is deactivated due to a click vs escape key press.

Actual Behavior

The esc key will always close the popover, even if the focus is no longer on the popover.
The focus will always return to the element prior to the focus trap, even if it is deactivated due to a click elsewhere.

Expected Behavior

When clicked outside of a focus trap, the focus should not be returned to the element prior to the focus trap.

Reproduction Sample

https://codepen.io/driskull/pen/zYgaNQP

Reproduction Steps

1. open the popover
2. press escape
3. notice the button is focused
4. open the popover
5. click outside of the popover
6. notice the button is focused
7. click again outside of the popover and the focus on the button is now gone.

Reproduction Version

2.13.2

Working W3C Example/Tutorial

No response

Relevant Info

related JS SDK issue: https://devtopia.esri.com/WebGIS/arcgis-js-api/issues/66350#issuecomment-5110811

Regression?

No response

Priority impact

impact - p3 - not time sensitive

Calcite package

• @esri/calcite-components
• @esri/calcite-components-react
• @esri/calcite-design-tokens
• @esri/eslint-plugin-calcite-components

Esri team

ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript

[driskull]

The way our focus trapping works is that when the focus trap is deactivated via click outside or escape, focus is returned to the element focused prior to opening the focus-trap. In this case, this would be the expand button.

I think what Maps SDK is asking for is that clicks outside deactivate the focus trap but do not return focus to the element prior to focus trapping. But when hitting escape, it does return focus to the element previously focused.

I think we may need a spike and do some research here.

[hcampos-professional]

I think what Maps SDK is asking for is that clicks outside deactivate the focus trap but do not return focus to the element prior to focus trapping

This could be conditional on whether the focus was explicitly moved to a different element, if we can detect or signal that. In the case of the JSAPI, the problem happens when the focus is moved to the view but then reset back to the expand button. If there was a way to detect that the focus switched to the view, then we could stop the default focus trap behavior of going back to expand button.

[driskull]

This could be conditional on whether the focus was explicitly moved to a different element

Yeah we can probably do this.

[geospatialem]

May be resolved by #10522, blocking to confirm after the efforts are completed.