Improve voiceover experience

- As well as stylng cells, set the tabIndex(roving)
- Natively focus the div with .focus() so screen reader actually moves over the cells
- improve labels and roles

src/components/views/rooms/MemberList/MemberListView.tsx

@@ -117,10 +117,14 @@ const MemberListView: React.FC<IProps> = (props: IProps) => {
                     <MemberListHeaderView vm={vm} />
                 </Form.Root>
                 <Virtuoso
+                    aria-label={_t("room_list|list_title")}
+                    role="grid"
                     ref={ref}
                     style={{ height: "100%" }}
                     scrollerRef={scrollerRef}
                     context={{ focusedIndex }}
+                    // Don't focus on the table as a whole go straight to the first item in the list
+                    tabIndex={undefined}
                     data={vm.members}
                     onFocus={onFocus}
                     itemContent={(index, member) => getRowComponent(member, index === focusedIndex)}

src/components/views/rooms/MemberList/tiles/RoomMemberTileView.tsx

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Com
 Please see LICENSE files in the repository root for full details.
 */
 
-import React, { type JSX } from "react";
+import React, { useEffect, type JSX } from "react";
 
 import DisambiguatedProfile from "../../../messages/DisambiguatedProfile";
 import { type RoomMember } from "../../../../../models/rooms/RoomMember";
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ export function RoomMemberTileView(props: IProps): JSX.Element {
         />
     );
     const name = vm.name;
-    const nameJSX = <DisambiguatedProfile member={member} fallbackName={name || ""} />;
+    const nameJSX = <DisambiguatedProfile withTooltip member={member} fallbackName={name || ""} />;
 
     const presenceState = member.presenceState;
     let presenceJSX: JSX.Element | undefined;
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ export function RoomMemberTileView(props: IProps): JSX.Element {
             presenceJsx={presenceJSX}
             nameJsx={nameJSX}
             userLabel={vm.userLabel}
+            ariaLabel={_t("member_list|open_profile", { memberName: name })}
             iconJsx={iconJsx}
             focused={props.focused}
         />

src/components/views/rooms/MemberList/tiles/ThreePidInviteTileView.tsx

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { type ThreePIDInvite } from "../../../../../models/rooms/ThreePIDInvite"
 import BaseAvatar from "../../../avatars/BaseAvatar";
 import { MemberTileView } from "./common/MemberTileView";
 import { InvitedIconView } from "./common/InvitedIconView";
+import { _t } from "../../../../../languageHandler";
 
 interface Props {
     threePidInvite: ThreePIDInvite;
@@ -22,12 +23,14 @@ export function ThreePidInviteTileView(props: Props): JSX.Element {
     const vm = useThreePidTileViewModel(props);
     const av = <BaseAvatar name={vm.name} size="32px" aria-hidden="true" />;
     const iconJsx = <InvitedIconView isThreePid={true} />;
+    const name = vm.name;
 
     return (
         <MemberTileView
-            nameJsx={vm.name}
+            nameJsx={name}
             avatarJsx={av}
             onClick={vm.onClick}
+            ariaLabel={_t("member_list|open_profile", { memberName: name })}
             userLabel={vm.userLabel}
             iconJsx={iconJsx}
             focused={props.focused}

src/components/views/rooms/MemberList/tiles/common/MemberTileView.tsx

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Please see LICENSE files in the repository root for full details.
 */
 
 import classNames from "classnames";
-import React, { type JSX } from "react";
+import React, { useEffect, useRef, type JSX } from "react";
 
 import AccessibleButton from "../../../../elements/AccessibleButton";
 
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ interface Props {
     avatarJsx: JSX.Element;
     nameJsx: JSX.Element | string;
     onClick: () => void;
+    ariaLabel: string;
     presenceJsx?: JSX.Element;
     userLabel?: React.ReactNode;
     iconJsx?: JSX.Element;
@@ -25,16 +26,24 @@ export function MemberTileView(props: Props): JSX.Element {
     if (props.userLabel) {
         userLabelJsx = <div className="mx_MemberTileView_userLabel">{props.userLabel}</div>;
     }
-
+    const ref = useRef<HTMLDivElement | null>(null);
+    useEffect(() => {
+        if (props.focused) {
+            ref.current?.focus();
+        }
+    }, [props.focused]);
     return (
         // The wrapping div is required to make the magic mouse listener work, for some reason.
         <div>
             <AccessibleButton
+                ref={ref}
                 className={classNames("mx_MemberTileView", {
                     mx_MemberTileView_hover: props.focused,
                 })}
                 onClick={props.onClick}
-                tabIndex={-1}
+                aria-label={props.ariaLabel}
+                tabIndex={props.focused ? 0 : -1}
+                role="gridcell"
             >
                 <div className="mx_MemberTileView_left">
                     <div className="mx_MemberTileView_avatar">

src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json

@@ -1645,7 +1645,9 @@
         "invite_button_no_perms_tooltip": "You do not have permission to invite users",
         "invited_label": "Invited",
         "no_matches": "No matches",
-        "power_label": "%(userName)s (power %(powerLevelNumber)s)"
+        "power_label": "%(userName)s (power %(powerLevelNumber)s)",
+        "list_title": "Member list",
+        "open_profile": "Open profile %(memberName)s"
     },
     "member_list_back_action_label": "Room members",
     "message_edit_dialog_title": "Message edits",