Closed Bug 78296 Opened 23 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Active Accessibility: selection within textfields and textareas

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Platform:
x86
Windows 98
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Milestone:
mozilla1.9alpha8

People

(Reporter: trudelle, Assigned: aaronlev)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: access, Whiteboard: [ Screen readers have a workaround for Mozilla1.8. Needed for voice input support ]) 

1) Inform MSAA client of selection events, P1/2days
Inform MSAA client that selection has happened. There are at least 3 kinds of
selection events: selection remove, selection add and selection within.  We
don't know how to tell screen readers about selection within textfields and
textareas. That's scary. 

2) Receive  & perform MSAA client generated selection tasks, P2,4days
Sometimes the MSAA client such as screen reader will tell us what needs to be
selected. This bug only covers textareas and textfields.
Whiteboard: ETA mm/dd?, needed for embedding 0.9
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9.1
->0.9.2
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.1 → mozilla0.9.2
Keywords: access
Blocks: 65632
->moz1.0
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.2 → mozilla1.0
-> John Gaunt, who is handling MSAA selection
Assignee: evaughan → jgaunt
Severity: enhancement → normal
Keywords: fcc508
Target Milestone: mozilla1.0 → mozilla0.9.3
I can take this. Do these events correspond *only* to selection of text? I
thought they might include selection in listboxes etc. but the description makes
it sound like only text.

the event stuff should be short, taking selection will be a little more work.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Whiteboard: ETA mm/dd?, needed for embedding 0.9
I *think* it oovers listboxes, etc., but we need to go back to the MSAA SDK docs.

I'd hold off a little until we find out if someone is going to use it.
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.3 → mozilla0.9.4
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.4 → mozilla0.9.5
Priority: -- → P3
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.5 → mozilla1.0
Summary: MSAA: selection within textfields and textareas → Active Accessibility: selection within textfields and textareas
Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)
Target Milestone: mozilla1.0 → mozilla1.0.1
Keywords: mozilla1.0
Target Milestone: mozilla1.0.1 → ---
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.0
Keywords: topembed+
Sorry, we don't need this now. Might need it in the future. Screen readers are
getting the selection via other means.
Keywords: fcc508, mozilla1.0, topembed+
Target Milestone: mozilla1.0 → Future
reassigning to aaron, sounds like this can be resolved won't fix for now, but
want to let aaron make that decision.
Assignee: jgaunt → aaronl
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Keywords: sec508
Target Milestone: Future → mozilla1.9beta
Screen readers currently get this info via OSM, but will need this in the future.
Whiteboard: [ Screen readers have a workaround for Mozilla1.8. Needed for voice input support ]
Blocks: keya11y
Blocks: ia2
No longer blocks: 65632, keya11y
This was fixed via many IA2 bugs that Alexander Surkov fixed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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