1287284 - FF (at least dev edition) requires you to create a config preference to allow tab focusing of links

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[jenn]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2795.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I was using my keyboard tab key to go through a web page and none of the <a> content was focusing.


Actual results:

Links were skipped over. I found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11704828/how-to-allow-keyboard-focus-of-links-in-firefox/11713537#11713537 but it seems like much to expect the user to create their own accessibility.tabfocus preference


Expected results:

Since my Mac OS X full keyboard access preference is set to "all controls" ff should follow that without me creating the config preference.

Comment 1

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Hi Jenn,
Please send me the Firefox version and URL where you experience this issue.
Currently I can not reproduce this; I am able to tab through all the links on this page without need to access about:config. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Version 	49.0a2
Build ID 	20160719004028
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0

Comment 2

[Dan L.]

I'm experiencing the same issue as of last night (July 19, 2016). There's been 0 code changes on our end on the affected navigation bar since the last time this was working. Works fine in Chrome (at least the latest version). Using FireFox 47.0.1, you can check it out here https://www.choicehotels.com/

Steps to reproduce:
1. Click on the "CHOICE HOTELS" logo
2. Press tab key

Notice that focus is given to the "SIGN IN/JOIN" button. Expected result is to be able to tab through the global navigation elements.

Comment 3

[Michelle Funches - QA]

REQUEST: Can someone in the component group take a look and help
NOTE: I tested https://www.choicehotels.com/ in Release 47.0.1 and Aurora 49.0a2 and could not reproduce. 
Click the Choice Hotels Logo and then press tab I move to Manage Reservations, Tab again and I move to Customer Support...
I observe the same behavior in Chrome.
Mac 10.11.5
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0

Comment 4

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Dan, When I change the System Preferences to "Text boxes and lists only", then I can reproduce your report.
However I am applying "All Controls" and the tab moves left to right as expected.
FYI: With All Controls I still am unable to reproduce the original reported issue.

Comment 5

[Dan L.]

Michelle,

Strange that this has never been an issue until last night. I was able to tab correctly after I changed to "All Controls." I still think this should be looked in to. If Chrome can take care of the guess work for visually impaired users, FF should as well, as it's the de facto browser for for people using assistive technologies.

Comment 6

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Thanks for the update Dan, & I agree. I have put in a request for someone in that specific component to investigate further. If I come across additional info to help help narrow this down I will pass it along.

Comment 7

[Dan L.]

Excellent, thanks Michelle!

Comment 8

[piuccio]

I'm having this same issue right now on FF 60 (fresh install), even in Safe Mode. When I press TAB on this page the focus moves only to the buttons (Reply and '-') and none of the links present in this page ever gets focused.

Comment 9

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

A needinfo is requested from the reporter, however, the reporter is inactive on Bugzilla. Given that the bug is still UNCONFIRMED, closing the bug as incomplete.

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