1400010 - (as-android-talkback) [meta] [a11y] Talkback issues for Activity Stream top sites

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Activity Stream, enhancement, P5)

Comment 1

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

:eeejay and I prioritized the open issues for 57. Through that discussion I realized that perhaps I didn't understand the a11y concerns very well and so these bugs are not split out as effectively as perhaps they could be. Here is a summary of the prioritization:

<mcomella> Michael Comella eeejay: So to summarize, it'd be great to do bug 1399294 because it's beneficial but the implementation is simple and bug 1398836 because announcing things off-screen throughout the awesomescreen is confusing to users, especially when there are already many links on the top sites tab

And the full conversation with details, which may be helpful for trying to understand why I don't think these bugs may be broken out very well.

mcomella> Michael Comella eeejay: Hey - could you help me prioritize some android Activity Stream a11y bugs? We have roughly today and tomorrow to fix these bugs, in addition to other open bugs, for 57 and the open a11y issues are: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1315197 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1398836
10:26 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400014 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399294
10:26 
<firebot> Bug 1400014 — NEW, michael.l.comella — [a11y] When swiping between top sites items, the "Top sites multipage view" is announced
10:26 Bug 1399294 — NEW — [a11y] Activity stream topsites does not announce when a top site is pinned
10:26 Bug 1315197 — NEW, michael.l.comella — [a11y] Activity Stream topsites: fix default announcements/navigation
10:26 Bug 1398836 — NEW — [a11y] Activity Stream topsites: off-screen top sites announcements
10:27 
<mcomella> Michael Comella eeejay: How important do you feel these are and in which order should we tackle them? Also, I'm assuming top sites is just as important for Talkback users as for visual users but if that's not the case, let me know because that could help prioritize with other open issues too!
10:28 eeejay: We're triaging at 11:30 so if you could get back to me before that, it'd be great! Thanks and sorry for the short notice!

eeejay> mcomella: re: bug 1400014
10:40 
<firebot> https://bugzil.la/1400014 — NEW, [e-mail] — [a11y] When swiping between top sites items, the "Top sites multipage view" is announced
10:41 
<eeejay> mcomella: the issue is less the announcements, and more that a TalkBack user cannot swipe the next set of top sites into view.
10:41 a two finger swipe brings you to the bookmarks tab.
10:42 i think there is a broader UX issue that you are not going to solve by friday: the nested "scrollable" areas
10:44 
<mcomella> Michael Comella eeejay: So nested scrollable areas are not a good idea for Talkback users?
10:45 eeejay: (a two finger swipe directly on the top sites tiles will bring you to the next page, but I can see why having to hit a specific area when swiping is a problem)
10:45 
<eeejay> mcomella: when you do a two finger gesture with talkback, it simply translates it to a one finger gesture with an average of the two finger coordinates
10:46 
<eeejay> mcomella: so it doesn't matter where the user's cursor is. if they do the swipe outside of the bounds of the top-sites container, it will scroll to the next tab instead.
10:47 mcomella: re: prioritizing. i think bug 1399294 would be a good candidate to tackle. seems like something that would have a lot of benefit, and shouldn't be too hard
10:47 
<firebot> https://bugzil.la/1399294 — NEW, [e-mail] — [a11y] Activity stream topsites does not announce when a top site is pinned
10:49 
<eeejay> .. and i would also say bug 1398836, because the entire new tab screen is a giant link salad in TalkBack, with not much context
10:49 
<firebot> https://bugzil.la/1398836 — NEW, [e-mail] — [a11y] Activity Stream topsites: off-screen top sites announcements
10:50 
<eeejay> note, the issue is bigger than just the top-sites grid. the same bug exists for offscreen tabs. STR: go to bookmarks, swipe back a couple of times and you are navigating the pocket recommendations
10:51 
<mcomella> Michael Comella Oh goodness
10:51 
<eeejay> same thing at the end of the tab, the cursor just continues on to the next tab.

Comment 2

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

P3: meta. I've been actively maintaining this one.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Re-triaging per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Needinfo :susheel if you think this bug should be re-triaged.

Comment 4

[kched76]

What in the way of Yahweh is etiquette doing with bugzilla.mozilla? .Org

Comment 5

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