1521728 - Expose elements that have a title to the accessibility APIs, even if they wouldn't be accessible otherwise

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, enhancement)

Description

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

An example is a span with a CSS background image and a title attribute that would normally not get exposed. But Chrome exposes information like this, making stuff more accessible than we currently do. Test case:

data:text/html,<span>Marco</span><span title="male"><span aria-hidden="true">%F0%9F%91%A8</span</span>

This was found in the wild.

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Attachment: Bug 1521728 - Expose elements that have a title to the accessibility APIs, even if they wouldn't be accessible otherwise, r=Jamie

Elements such as html:span are normally only made accessible with ARIA attributes. Also expose them if they have a title attribute set. It can be assumed that information should be conveyed to the user in such cases.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/66a5303cb9dd
Expose elements that have a title to the accessibility APIs, even if they wouldn't be accessible otherwise, r=Jamie

Comment 3

[Dorel Luca [:dluca]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/66a5303cb9dd