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Improve keyboard accessiblity #2297

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What Happened?

Kinda related to: elementary/onboarding#217

When I have no working mouse, it is almost impossible the achieve simple file-related tasks with elementary files.
It is too hard to see which I element in the files app is currently selected.

Especially the default folders like "Pictures", "Downloads", "Music", etc. in the left sidebar, as well as the mass storage devices (root file system, USB drives, network attached storages) are almost impossible to access using the tab / arrow keys on the keyboard

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Try to use keyboard only to copy a file from a mounted NAS storage to ~/Downloads in the files app

Expected Behavior

Focus highlighting should have more contrast.
Tab-order should be consistent (top-left to bottom-right, etc.)
Every clickable UI element performing an action when clicked, should also be reachable with the tab key on the keyboard

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7.x (Horus)

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Latest release (I have run all updates)

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