Open Bug 1232837 Opened 9 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Guided Access support

Categories

(Firefox for iOS :: Browser, defect)

Product:
Firefox for iOS
Component:
Browser
Platform:
All
iOS 8
Type:
defect

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: dusek, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: access)

User Story

- a teacher handing 20 iPads to each student with the same Wikipedia article in Reader View wants to disable the ability of the kids to switch the Reader View off.

- a museum wants to show an article in Reader View next to an exhibit, disallowing the guests to turn the Reader View off

- (I did not yet give it much thought, so there might very well be other scenarios; But Reader View is a clear example of one feature where Guided Access makes sense)
Guided Access enables users (usually supervisors) to disable certain parts of UI for interaction. Think like kiosk mode. Useful for kiosks, schools.

The supervisor can draw a border around elements to disable, iOS then guesses the correct rectangle intended (based on UIView frames). It then disables the UI inside of those.

What we can do is use an API to save the supervisor this work and propose a well-considered named set of elements to disable. Further, the disabled elements in that case will not only be grayed out, they will not be visible at all (by us actually removing them from the view hierarchy).

See e.g.: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2013-202/, 39:40-46:15
Severity: normal → S3
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