RTC a11y bug PR-6.2-dev Pending

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avatar brianteeman
brianteeman
22 Oct 2026

Pull Request resolves # .

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Summary of Changes

Load the TinyMCE Help plugin when the Help menu item is enabled in the editor configuration.
The Help menu item has always been configured to be displayed by default in both the Medium and Advanced presets

However just adding Help to the menu did not load the help plugin. Currently you have to add the Help button before the help menu item would appear and be functional.

This PR restores the intended behaviour of having the Help menu item (without requiring the help button) by always loading the help plugin if the menu item is present

There is a tinyMCe configuration option that would allow us to hide the text at the bottom of the editor but I wouldnt recommend that we do that.

Testing Instructions

Using either the default advanced or medium preset for tinymce you can see in the tinymce plugin configuration that Help should be in the menu of the toolbar and there is NO help button in the toolbar

Advanced preset configuration in the plugin

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Medium preset configuration in the plugin

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then with either of these presets selected open an article and check the display of tinymce

If the help plugin is loaded then you should see

  1. Help on the toolbar
  2. Text at the bottom of the editor telling you how to access the help

To open the help you can then either use the keyboard shortcut as displayed OR use the menu item

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

No help menu item or shortcut information is displayed AND using the keyboard shortcut does nothing

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

Help menu item is displayed and Keyboard shortcut is displayed and both of these display the tinymce help

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Link to documentations

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avatar brianteeman brianteeman - open - 22 Oct 2026
avatar brianteeman brianteeman - change - 22 Oct 2026
Status New ⇒ Pending
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 22 Oct 2026
Category ⇒ Front End Plugins
avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 22 Oct 2026

Related bug #48679

avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 23 Oct 2026

Note for testers. On a clean install you will not see Help on the menubar of tinymce due to a bug #48679. You need to manually click on Use Advanced Preset to add the help menu item

avatar ThomasFinnern ThomasFinnern - test_item - 24 Oct 2026 - Tested successfully
avatar ThomasFinnern
ThomasFinnern - comment - 24 Oct 2026

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on e39d918

Tests were done for Admin edit in backend and registered/author user on frontend.
set 0: selected advanced preset, set 1: selected medium preset


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avatar ThomasFinnern
ThomasFinnern - comment - 24 Oct 2026

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on e39d918

Tests were done for Admin edit in backend and registered/author user on frontend.
set 0: selected advanced preset, set 1: selected medium preset


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avatar exlemor exlemor - test_item - 27 Oct 2026 - Tested successfully
avatar exlemor
exlemor - comment - 27 Oct 2026

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on e39d918

I was able to test this successfully. Thanks @brianteeman.

1 note which may not be related/an issue/out of scope: in Safari and Firefox on Mac, to be able to interact with the Alt+0 / Option+0 Help, I had to specifically click into the TinyMCE Editor window before the Alt+0 / Option+0 menu would open.


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avatar exlemor
exlemor - comment - 27 Oct 2026

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on e39d918

I was able to test this successfully. Thanks @brianteeman.

1 note which may not be related/an issue/out of scope: in Safari and Firefox on Mac, to be able to interact with the Alt+0 / Option+0 Help, I had to specifically click into the TinyMCE Editor window before the Alt+0 / Option+0 menu would open.


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avatar ThomasFinnern
ThomasFinnern - comment - 27 Oct 2026

I had the same issue

1 note which may not be related/an issue/out of scope: in Safari and Firefox on Mac, to be able to interact with the Alt+0 / Option+0 Help, I had to specifically click into the TinyMCE Editor window before the Alt+0 / Option+0 menu would open.
but i thought where can the keys be received ? My answer: In the editor, so for me that is ok

avatar richard67 richard67 - change - 27 Oct 2026
The description was changed
Status Pending ⇒ Ready to Commit
Labels Added: PR-6.2-dev
avatar richard67
richard67 - comment - 27 Oct 2026

RTC


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avatar richard67 richard67 - edited - 27 Oct 2026
avatar richard67
richard67 - comment - 27 Oct 2026

RTC


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avatar MacJoom MacJoom - change - 30 Oct 2026
Labels Added: RTC a11y bug
avatar MacJoom MacJoom - close - 30 Oct 2026
avatar MacJoom MacJoom - merge - 30 Oct 2026
avatar MacJoom MacJoom - change - 30 Oct 2026
Status Ready to Commit ⇒ Fixed in Code Base
Closed_Date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 ⇒ 2026-10-30 14:57:02
Closed_By ⇒ MacJoom
avatar MacJoom
MacJoom - comment - 30 Oct 2026

Thank you!

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