1096227 - Tests to ensure Windows XP with OMTC disabled works with JAWS until Freedom Scientific implements MSAA/IAccessible2 friendly scripts

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Mardeg]

Jesup in bug 1095971 comment 5 said of the layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled preference:
>fully disabling it is (so far as I know) no longer well-tested (or perhaps
>even fully supported)
MarcoZ in comment 12 said:
>Firefox exposes a status bar accessible that can be found by MSAA/IAccessible2,
>so the JAWS ReadStatusBar script can be adjusted to not rely on the
>old-fashioned screen scraping mechanism. I suggest that interested parties
>work with Freedom Scientific that they get this implemented properly.
So, separate from the issue of Status-4-Evar and other extensions providing accessibility information using ARIA on custom widgets, this bug is about running testsuites on Windows XP machines with OMTC disabled ensuring failures don't get missed for the time being so screen review mode AKA screen scraping AKA display hooking AKA GDI hooking will still be supported until such time as users of JAWS have other methods that are fully capable of reading extensions/websites.