1403006 - [a11y][UX] Activity Stream design of a scrollable container inside a scrollable container is unintuitive with Talkback

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1398836

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Activity Stream, defect, P3)

Description

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

You can:
- Swipe right over the top sites tiles to scroll to the next page of top sites tiles
- Swipe outside of the top sites tiles to scroll to the next page of the home screen (i.e. to Bookmarks, then History)

For non-visual users, it's difficult to distinguish the two containers so some options to consider:
- Reconsider the Top Sites design
- Provide a configurable value so Top Sites can be more intuitive to non-visual users (will this be enough to make it intuitive?)

Flagging for triage because this is an important issue that is a comprehensive redesign so I can't determine the priority of myself.

Eitan, would you have anything to elaborate on here?

Comment 1

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Maybe a good solution would be if a talkback cursor swipe past the last top site would scroll the next top sites pane into view and put the cursor on the first tile there.

Aside from that I would remove the swipe hint that talkback gives when landing on the top sites.

Comment 2

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

(In reply to Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay] from comment #1)
> Maybe a good solution would be if a talkback cursor swipe past the last top
> site would scroll the next top sites pane into view and put the cursor on
> the first tile there.
> 
> Aside from that I would remove the swipe hint that talkback gives when
> landing on the top sites.

To be explicit, "the swipe hint that talkback gives when landing on top sites" would be Talkback describing the Top Sites view as a "Multipage view" and (sometimes) "Page 1 of 2"?

Though perhaps an explicit swipe hint was added in Oreo that I'm unaware of.

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That being said, the changes you suggest can be encapsulated in bug 1398836 and don't require overarching UX changes (this bug) so I'll dupe this.

Comment 3

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

Moved NI to bug 1398836 comment 9.