1280880 - New Tab Page settings are inaccessible: Keyboard focus, no proper semantics

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1399428

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect, P2)

Description

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

STR: Open about:newtab or just open a new tab in Firefox.
2. Tab through the page.

Expected: Settings like "Include Most Visited Site", "Show empty page" etc. should be focusable.
Actual: Tab key jumps right over them.

4. Now start NVDA and listen to the elements under New Tab Settings.

Expected: They should be check boxes, radio buttons, or buttons, depending on what they actually are.
Actual: NVDA just calls them "clickable", but gives no indication of what they are, what their function is. For example I cannot tell if the Show Most Visited pages or Show Most Recent are checkboxes or radio buttons, whether they are checked or not, or if About New Tab is a button, what Show Empty Page is etc. Could be a button or checkbox.

This section definitely needs some proper elements, or if that is for some reason not feasible, ARIA and JS magic for semantics and keyboard interaction.