412965 - ARIA sliders and progressbars should not support ATK IText

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Scott Haeger]

The ARIA progressbar seen here http://www.mozilla.org/access/dhtml/progressbar and the ARIA slider seen here http://www.mozilla.org/access/dhtml/simple-slider lead me think that sliders and progressbars should not support the Text interface.  An example of the text output from one of the objects is '|********-----------------|', which is of little value and complicates an AT's support of such an object.

Comment 1

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Aaron, sounds correct?

I'm sure we create hypertext accessible for general nodes with aria role attribute. Possibly we should create generic accessible for some roles?

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Attachment: Expand on |if| block in nsHypertextAccessible::QueryInterface()

Alexander, I admit your approach sounds cleaner but it might have unintended consequences. So for now I'd like to just expand the list of nsHyperTextAccessible ARIA roles that don't support the text interfaces.

Comment 3

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Comment on attachment 298956 [details] [diff] [review]
Expand on |if| block in nsHypertextAccessible::QueryInterface()

could you please put XXX comment to get back to this later?

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

Comment on attachment 298956 [details] [diff] [review]
Expand on |if| block in nsHypertextAccessible::QueryInterface()

Yes I will, thank you.

Comment 5

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Comment on attachment 298956 [details] [diff] [review]
Expand on |if| block in nsHypertextAccessible::QueryInterface()

a=beltzner for 1.9