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When we're in one of these modes, we need to ensure that everything above the overlay (the header and footer buttons) is interactive, while everything obscured by the overlay (the media tiles) is non-interactive and removed from the accessibility tree. It's not a very easy task to trap focus outside an element, so the best solution I could come up with is to set tabindex="-1" manually on all interactive elements belonging to the media tiles.

Closes #3481
Closes #3480

When we're in one of these modes, we need to ensure that everything above the overlay (the header and footer buttons) is interactive, while everything obscured by the overlay (the media tiles) is non-interactive and removed from the accessibility tree. It's not a very easy task to trap focus *outside* an element, so the best solution I could come up with is to set tabindex="-1" manually on all interactive elements belonging to the media tiles.
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I need to do more debugging of the Playwright test to understand what error it's getting stuck on, but this is otherwise ready to be reviewed.

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Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
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@toger5 toger5 merged commit 4be3955 into element-hq:livekit Sep 18, 2025
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Half-Shot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 19, 2025
…de (#3486)

* Fix the interactivity of buttons while reconnecting or in earpiece mode

When we're in one of these modes, we need to ensure that everything above the overlay (the header and footer buttons) is interactive, while everything obscured by the overlay (the media tiles) is non-interactive and removed from the accessibility tree. It's not a very easy task to trap focus *outside* an element, so the best solution I could come up with is to set tabindex="-1" manually on all interactive elements belonging to the media tiles.

* Write a Playwright test for reconnecting

* fix lints

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* fix test

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* enable http2 for matrx-rtc host to allow the jwt service to talk to the SFU

* remove rate limit for delayed events

* more time to connect to livekit SFU

* Due to a Firefox issue we set the start anchor for the tab test to the Mute microphone button

* adapt to most recent Element Web version

* Use the "End call" button as proofe for a started call

* Currrenty disabled due to recent Element Web
- not indicating the number of participants
- bypassing Lobby

* linting

* disable 'can only interact with header and footer while reconnecting' for firefox

---------

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: Timo <16718859+toger5@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: fkwp <github-fkwp@w4ve.de>
Half-Shot added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2025
* Add media hints for notification events.

* Prevent showing calling view when disconnected from Livekit. (#3491)

* Refactor disconnection handling

* Use "unknown"

* Update signature

* Add tests

* Expose livekitConnectionState directly

* fix whoopsie

* Update dependency livekit-client to v2.15.7 (#3496)

Co-authored-by: renovate[bot] <29139614+renovate[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

* Fix the interactivity of buttons while reconnecting or in earpiece mode (#3486)

* Fix the interactivity of buttons while reconnecting or in earpiece mode

When we're in one of these modes, we need to ensure that everything above the overlay (the header and footer buttons) is interactive, while everything obscured by the overlay (the media tiles) is non-interactive and removed from the accessibility tree. It's not a very easy task to trap focus *outside* an element, so the best solution I could come up with is to set tabindex="-1" manually on all interactive elements belonging to the media tiles.

* Write a Playwright test for reconnecting

* fix lints

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* fix test

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* enable http2 for matrx-rtc host to allow the jwt service to talk to the SFU

* remove rate limit for delayed events

* more time to connect to livekit SFU

* Due to a Firefox issue we set the start anchor for the tab test to the Mute microphone button

* adapt to most recent Element Web version

* Use the "End call" button as proofe for a started call

* Currrenty disabled due to recent Element Web
- not indicating the number of participants
- bypassing Lobby

* linting

* disable 'can only interact with header and footer while reconnecting' for firefox

---------

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: Timo <16718859+toger5@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: fkwp <github-fkwp@w4ve.de>

* Log when a track is unpublished or runs into an error (#3495)

* default mute states (unmuted!) in widget mode (embedded + intent) (#3494)

* default mute states (unmuted!) in widget mode (embedded + intent)

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* review

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* introduce a cache for the url params.

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* Add an option to skip the cache.

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

---------

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* Apply new hint code

* missed a bit

* fix intent

* Automatically update intent on mute change

* update packages

* lint

* Fix tests

* fix merge fails

---------

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: renovate[bot] <29139614+renovate[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Robin <robin@robin.town>
Co-authored-by: Timo <16718859+toger5@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: fkwp <github-fkwp@w4ve.de>
Half-Shot added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2025
* Add media hints for notification events.

* Prevent showing calling view when disconnected from Livekit. (#3491)

* Refactor disconnection handling

* Use "unknown"

* Update signature

* Add tests

* Expose livekitConnectionState directly

* fix whoopsie

* Update dependency livekit-client to v2.15.7 (#3496)

Co-authored-by: renovate[bot] <29139614+renovate[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

* Fix the interactivity of buttons while reconnecting or in earpiece mode (#3486)

* Fix the interactivity of buttons while reconnecting or in earpiece mode

When we're in one of these modes, we need to ensure that everything above the overlay (the header and footer buttons) is interactive, while everything obscured by the overlay (the media tiles) is non-interactive and removed from the accessibility tree. It's not a very easy task to trap focus *outside* an element, so the best solution I could come up with is to set tabindex="-1" manually on all interactive elements belonging to the media tiles.

* Write a Playwright test for reconnecting

* fix lints

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* fix test

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* enable http2 for matrx-rtc host to allow the jwt service to talk to the SFU

* remove rate limit for delayed events

* more time to connect to livekit SFU

* Due to a Firefox issue we set the start anchor for the tab test to the Mute microphone button

* adapt to most recent Element Web version

* Use the "End call" button as proofe for a started call

* Currrenty disabled due to recent Element Web
- not indicating the number of participants
- bypassing Lobby

* linting

* disable 'can only interact with header and footer while reconnecting' for firefox

---------

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: Timo <16718859+toger5@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: fkwp <github-fkwp@w4ve.de>

* Log when a track is unpublished or runs into an error (#3495)

* default mute states (unmuted!) in widget mode (embedded + intent) (#3494)

* default mute states (unmuted!) in widget mode (embedded + intent)

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* review

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* introduce a cache for the url params.

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* Add an option to skip the cache.

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

---------

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>

* Apply new hint code

* missed a bit

* fix intent

* Automatically update intent on mute change

* update packages

* lint

* Fix tests

* fix merge fails

---------

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: renovate[bot] <29139614+renovate[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Robin <robin@robin.town>
Co-authored-by: Timo <16718859+toger5@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: fkwp <github-fkwp@w4ve.de>
toger5 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2025
* Add media hints for notification events.

* Prevent showing calling view when disconnected from Livekit. (#3491)

* Refactor disconnection handling

* Use "unknown"

* Update signature

* Add tests

* Expose livekitConnectionState directly

* fix whoopsie

* Update dependency livekit-client to v2.15.7 (#3496)



* Fix the interactivity of buttons while reconnecting or in earpiece mode (#3486)

* Fix the interactivity of buttons while reconnecting or in earpiece mode

When we're in one of these modes, we need to ensure that everything above the overlay (the header and footer buttons) is interactive, while everything obscured by the overlay (the media tiles) is non-interactive and removed from the accessibility tree. It's not a very easy task to trap focus *outside* an element, so the best solution I could come up with is to set tabindex="-1" manually on all interactive elements belonging to the media tiles.

* Write a Playwright test for reconnecting

* fix lints



* fix test



* enable http2 for matrx-rtc host to allow the jwt service to talk to the SFU

* remove rate limit for delayed events

* more time to connect to livekit SFU

* Due to a Firefox issue we set the start anchor for the tab test to the Mute microphone button

* adapt to most recent Element Web version

* Use the "End call" button as proofe for a started call

* Currrenty disabled due to recent Element Web
- not indicating the number of participants
- bypassing Lobby

* linting

* disable 'can only interact with header and footer while reconnecting' for firefox

---------






* Log when a track is unpublished or runs into an error (#3495)

* default mute states (unmuted!) in widget mode (embedded + intent) (#3494)

* default mute states (unmuted!) in widget mode (embedded + intent)



* review



* introduce a cache for the url params.



* Add an option to skip the cache.



---------



* Apply new hint code

* missed a bit

* fix intent

* Automatically update intent on mute change

* update packages

* lint

* Fix tests

* fix merge fails

---------

Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: renovate[bot] <29139614+renovate[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Robin <robin@robin.town>
Co-authored-by: Timo <16718859+toger5@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
Co-authored-by: fkwp <github-fkwp@w4ve.de>
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