openwebrxplus-plugins

This receiver plugin replaces the built-in “Search Bookmarks” dialog (right-click on the bookmark button, or the Y keyboard shortcut) with a fully keyboard- and screen-reader-accessible version. The plugin patches the existing dialog and BookmarkBar object in place.

Features

• Proper <label>s for the search field and the results list
• Results shown in a native <select> dropdown instead of a table of links, so keyboard and screen-reader navigation come for free
• Live filtering as you type — no need to press RETURN. But just in case: RETURN does refresh the list and places focus on the results.
• Leaving the search field empty shows all available bookmarks right away, including bandplan/dial-frequency entries
• TAB from the search field into the results list opens the dropdown
• Each entry is labeled with its source: (Personal Bookmark), (Systemwide Bookmark) or (Bandplan Frequency), since blind user often can’t see the differently colored bookmarks on the bandplan.
• Selecting an entry (RETURN, click, or leaving the list) tunes the receiver to that bookmark
• ESC closes both the search dialog and the “Edit Bookmark” dialog
• To prevent accidental tuning, at the top of the list is an entry to leave the tuned frequency without any changes.

Prerequisites

• This plugin depends on the utils plugin, v0.4 or later (loaded automatically if missing).
• Also, you need to run an OpenWebRX+ version that includes the search functionality, introduced in version 1.2.118.

Installation

Add this line to your init.js file:

Plugins.load('https://0xaf.github.io/openwebrxplus-plugins/receiver/accessible_bookmark_search/accessible_bookmark_search.js');

Reload the UI; right-clicking the bookmark button (or pressing Y) now opens the accessible search dialog.

init.js

Learn how to load plugins.

Known issues / compatibility

• Do not load this plugin together with the search_bookmarks plugin — both patch the same BookmarkBar methods, so only whichever loads last actually takes effect. This plugin detects that case and logs a console warning, but does not block loading.
• showPicker() (used to auto-expand the dropdown on TAB/RETURN) is not supported in every browser/version; where unsupported, the list still gets focus and keyboard navigation works, it just doesn’t visually pop open by itself until you press a key to open it manually.

Code

Github repo

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