I wasn't able to replicate this problem. I was able to move blocks on the profile page using only the keyboard.

This is not the case for course pages, though. There, with JavaScript on, you cannot move blocks or activities/resources using the keyboard alone.

I see what you mean. I was able to do this on the demo page. I was at least able to move it to the navigation block to the center column i was not able to move the block to below the settings block. I could select the dotted area but the block would not move.

Based on what NVDA read I would say that each of the Move block here descriptions need to be more descriptive. Such as Move Navigation block below settings block or Move navigation block above settings block. At minimum I would need to know that i am moving it above or below and what area.

So the description in this ticket definitely needs to be changed or split into 2 tickets one for the JavaScript issue in course and one for the move to text being more verbose.

Hi, Jason.

I agree. Could you edit this issue and reword it to ask for more verbose descriptions of targets and add a second issue relating to moving blocks in course pages.

Any idea what the text should be like Jason? I have my own ideas but would like some input if possible, so I don't go off in the wrong direction.

My idea for the wording is to use above or below with the block name that the block would be placed in which column and above or below which blocks. So if I have a column with calendar, latest news and people I would see 4 options.
1. Move to sidepre column above the calendar block
2. Move to sidepre column above the latest news block
3. Move to sidepre column above the people block
4. Move to sidepre column below the people block

For a really descriptive phraseIi would combined the above and below in 2 and 3 to read
2. Move to sidepre column above the latest news and below the calendar blocks.
3. Move to sidepre column above the people and below the latest news blocks.

The second part may be overkill, but would convey the most accurate spacial reference for the block. You may also want to add the name of the block being moved to make sure the user remembers which block they are moving as they tab through the move areas.

The other thing that you may want to happen is lock focus on only the move areas and provide the user with a way to cancel out of the move action. Containing focus would allow a user to click move block then tab through each of the move areas and select the one to move to. This would speed up their ability to move the block without having to tab through the links in the other blocks.

Locking focus is a huge undertaking, and would probably require rebuilding the source order, or at least some fancy z-index and modal control javascript, far beyond the scope of this issue.

Will look into adding the first part for now. Even this may be a little ambitious ... can't tell off the top of my head though.

having spoken about this yesterday in Scrum, I was asked if the amount of work this would require is actually worth the pay off right now. I'll be doing a little investigation into the amount of work it would require to get this done, and deciding on that later today.

turns out master/lib/ajax/blocks.php demonstrates most of what is needed - I will need to translate it to the none AJAX interface, if it isn't already there, but it could be done.

Moving to Sprint 30 as sprint 29 has ended

Master only patch due to the huge changes in the strings needed to accomplish the task.

Thanks for the patch Jason.

[Y] Syntax
[Y] Output
[Y] Whitespace
[Y] Language
[-] Databases
[-] Testing
[-] Security
[Y] Documentation
[N] Git
[Y] Sanity check

All good! Just a minor thing, it is better to keep first line of commit message (commit subject line) less than 72 characters, just easier to read. Further details can go below, separated by the blank like (commit body). Can you please re-write it. Also there are two commented dev artifacts in the code, remove them unless they are absolutely necessary.

Thanks!

Thanks Ruslan, changed the commit message to be less wordy, and removed the left over dev stuff. Pushing for integration now.

Hi Jason,

This needs testing instructions if it's going to be integrated...

Jason - can you provide the testing instructions and resubmit this for next week?

Thanks!

Moving this reopened issue out from current integration. Please, re-submit it for integration once ready.

Hi Jason,

First - apologies for not looking closer at this issue last week to give you some earlier feedback (my fault was trying to get through too many issues).

Minor issues:
Need to remove the text param from the phpdoc for the block_move_target constructor in lib/outputcomponents.php

More important:
You have not documented the new parameters to block_move_target (and it is not clear what they are for without knowing this issue).

You should not build strings by concatination if possible - you should have separate strings for moveblockafterblock and moveblockbeforeblock.

You have changed an API - needs comments in upgrade.txt (function "block_move_target" changed in renderer).

Most important:
You have broken mymobile! (Because you changed the API above)

Thanks - these should all be easy fixes.

Thanks for the feedback Damyon. Will endeavour to get them sorted ASAP.

All fixed now Damyon. please continue with the integration of this issue.

Thanks Jason,

I've integrated this for master only now.

I had to add a commit to fix whitespace, indenting and make the update.txt comment more verbose.

Tested on the master integration branch.
No problems found.
Test passed.

Thanks for your hard work. This issue has been integrated upstream and is now available via git (and in some hours, via mirrors and downloads).