[A11y] Keyboard focus is not automatically moved to toast notification

[Benjin]

Environment Details:
Application Name: Visual Studio Code
Application Version: 1.38.1 (user setup)
Commit: b37e54
Electron: 4.2.10
Node.js: 10.11.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18362

Repro steps:

1. Go to Extensions
2. Pick any ol' extension (confirmed on Java Extension Pack)
3. Use keyboard to select "Install" button
4. Hit on keyboard

Expectation:
Keyboard focus is moved to the resulting toast, allowing me to dismiss or take action.

Reality:
Keyboard focus stays in the main editor window, where it was before. Difficult or impossible to tab to the resulting toast.

[vscodebot]

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• Accessibility: tabbing in a warning popup should cycle within the popup instead of moving focus to background menus. (#79826)

[Benjin]

Refiling of #81483 with repro specific to VS Code

[isidorn]

Assignign to next milestone to investigate then.

[isidorn]

I just tried this out and I disagree.
Notificatinos are something that is in the background and they should definentely not steal focus.

If every notification was stealing focus, then the user can be distributed all the time by random spam notifications from extensions. And this would lead to a very bad exeperience.

I am closing this as caused by extension and my recommendation is that the Java Extension Pack should use a modal dialog, and not a notificatino if the extension wants to focus to be switched to that and the user to be interupted.
I hope this makes sense, but all the API is there and it is up to the extension to decide which dialog should steal focus (use modal) and which not (use notifications).

Bottom line: notifications should not be obtrusive.

[vscodebot]

This issue is caused by an extension, please file it with the repository (or contact) the extension has linked in its overview in VS Code or the marketplace for VS Code. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

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