Kanban Board Issues : Inaccessible by keyboard and no conforming alternate

Issue Summary

The element is not accessible by keyboard alone and there is no conforming accessible version of the same functionality reachable from the non-conforming page.

Element : Release button

Tested URL

https://instenv-10447-lliy.instenv.internal.atlassian.com/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=2

Steps to Reproduce

1. Navigate to the Jira dashboard page.
2. Navigate to the "Boards" menu button in the header section & activate it.
3. Activate the “KP board ” link or any other board available in the menu. 
4. Navigate to the "Kanban board" section.

Actual Results

The "Release…" button link in the right section of the page in the main content area does not receive keyboard focus and screen reader focus. The element is given in an anchor element and given a role of a button which are nested inside List group of "Backlog", "Selected for Development" header elements which do not receive keyboard focus.

The "Release..." button link is available on mouse click and mouse hover actions.

This makes keyboard-only users difficult to access the link present in the Project dashboard.

Expected Results

Following are the expected keyboard interactions.

• The Interactive element "Release…" button should be able to receive keyboard focus and the screen reader should announce "Create and release a version from this column".
• The elements should get activated with "Enter" key.
• When the user presses the "Release…" button link, the screen reader should announce the change in the page that happened.

Apply the following suggested fixes in the source code.

• Remove the link from the list element are keep it separate into another div element in order that it is an independent element and not in the headers list.
• Provide an appropriate aria-label such as aria-label="Release version" in the source code.

Screenshot

Screen Recording

JRASERVER-73398.mov

Workaround

Currently there is no known workaround for this behaviour. A workaround will be added here when available

Bug Ref: 725851