1182162 - (AndroidA11yUpdates) [AccessFu] Modern Android

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")]

This is a meta bug for action items related to improving AccessFu for the latest Android. Here is the list of tasks (individual bugs will be opened for each item if necessary):

Do no have:
* slider control (*) [bug]
* move last and first does not work [bug for sure]
* scrolling has a new gesture to swipe immediately [bug, chrome doesn't support, we could]
* Local menu [bug]
  * line granularity
  * section navigation (like landmark)
  * list navigation
  * control navigation  -> we might be able to do that based on things being actionable
  * special content navigation [??]
* swiping left and right does different things [notabug]

TODO:
* remove highlight (except for word and character mode) (*) [bug]
  * update system highlight on scroll or viewport changes

Gingerbread:
* remove gingerbread accessibility events [bug]
* keep dpad navigation [notabug]

(*) top priorities

Comment 1

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

A short wish list for Android platform accessibility. Putting it here so I don't forget:
- Asynchronous performAction(): Currently performAction needs to return true or false if the action succeeded or not (for example move to next object).
- Real first/last item. Currently it is just first last item on the screen (pretty useless, imho).
- Configurable HTML navigation granularity. There is no way to truly modify the local context menu and add different granularity settings in HTML. Users want headers and links.

Comment 2

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Release note added for aurora 43 release; see comments in bug 1019432.

Comment 3

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

This is a old bug about "modern android". Closing the meta and will evaluate dependencies.