1333847 - [a11y] Inability to know the enabled or disabled status of message filters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 388191

(Thunderbird :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Abdelkrim BENSAID]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20161208153507

Steps to reproduce:

Here is the bug description:

1. Navigate to the list of filters and select one.
2. Press Space to activate or deactivate the selected filter.



Actual results:

With JAWS and NVDA, no information is given on the state of the filter.


Expected results:

Ideally, for better accessibility with screen readers, it would be that these
items are real checkbox type, and that the user can know in real time the
activated state or not of these elements.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for filing the bug report. I suggest this be duped to bug 388191, which has good historical information

Comment 2

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Wayne, if you want to dupe it, do it. Until then I use this bug.

I started a build with my patch: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try-comm-central&revision=e7893319eb430a5840d0be81e20f34804b88e594

When it finishes the build will be available here: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/try-builds/[e-mail]-e7893319eb430a5840d0be81e20f34804b88e594/

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I assume you agree it's the same issue, so yes we should dup it because it has other interested parities and historical information. The reporter address will be added to it.