[PoC] Tooltip delay and focus

[weronikaolejniczak]

Summary

Closes #9552

Moved to:

• [EuiToolTip] Show tooltip only on keyboard focus #9624
• [EuiToolTip] Remove delay and update animation #9626

API Changes

component / parent	prop / child	change	description

Screenshots

Before	After
{Before image}	{After image}

Impact Assessment

Note: Most PRs should be tested in Kibana to help gauge their Impact before merging.

• 🔴 Breaking changes — What will break? How many usages in Kibana/Cloud UI are impacted?
• 💅 Visual changes — May impact style overrides; could require visual testing. Explain and estimate impact.
• 🧪 Test impact — May break functional or snapshot tests (e.g., HTML structure, class names, default values).
• 🔧 Hard to integrate — If changes require substantial updates to Kibana, please stage the changes and link them here.

Impact level: 🟢 None / 🟢 Low / 🟡 Moderate / 🔴 High

Release Readiness

• Documentation: {link to docs page(s)}
• Figma: {link to Figma or issue}
• Migration guide: {steps or link, for breaking/visual changes or deprecations}
• Adoption plan (new features): {link to issue/doc or outline who will integrate this and where}

QA instructions for reviewer

Checklist before marking Ready for Review

• Filled out all sections above
• QA: Tested light/dark modes, high contrast, mobile, Chrome/Safari/Edge/Firefox, keyboard-only, screen reader
• QA: Tested in CodeSandbox and Kibana
• QA: Tested docs changes
• Tests: Added/updated Jest, Cypress, and VRT
• Changelog: Added changelog entry
• Breaking changes: Added breaking change label (if applicable)

Reviewer checklist

• Approved Impact Assessment — Acceptable to merge given the consumer impact.
• Approved Release Readiness — Docs, Figma, and migration info are sufficient to ship.

[elasticmachine]

💚 Build Succeeded

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• Commit: f7c5e73
• Documentation website
• Storybook

History

• 💚 Build #3195 succeeded fbb1b81
• 💚 Build #3190 succeeded 49c59c4
• 💚 Build #3185 succeeded beb09cb
• 💚 Build #3178 succeeded cbb2012

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[elasticmachine]

💔 Build Failed

• Buildkite Build
• Commit: f7c5e73

Failed CI Steps

• 🔨 EUI pull request test

History

• 💔 Build #6225 failed fbb1b81
• 💔 Build #6221 failed 49c59c4

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[weronikaolejniczak]

Will open a new one.