1525470 - Firefox + TalkBack doesn't announce aria-describedby content when focusing a text field

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect, P2)

Description

[scottaohara]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

Visit the following reduced test case:
https://codepen.io/scottohara/full/qgPrvx

With TalkBack (7.2 on Android 8.1) on, swipe into the text input.

Exact Firefox version: 64.0.2

Actual results:

TalkBack announces "Entry Test. Double tap to enter text"

Expected results:

The content referenced by aria-describedby "Fill me out!" should have been announced as the accessible description of the text field.

For comparison, Chrome + TalkBack announces:
"Edit box, Test. Fill me out! Double tap to enter text."

Comment 1

[miralobontiu]

I was able to reproduce the issue on the latest Nightly 67.0a1 (2019-02-06) and Beta 66.0b5 with Sony Xperia Z2 (Android 6.0.1).
I will confirm the issue.

Thank you for your report!

Comment 2

[Ioana Chiorean]

Hi Mike,
Any actionable things here as I think this goes under WebCompat?

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

This would be a core issue, not a webcompat one (unless it's relying on a non-standard feature, or treating Firefox differently).

Jamie, is this a known issue?

Comment 4

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Thanks. I don't think we have a bug on file for this. Eitan, is this a regression with the new a11y implementation or has this always been a bug?

Comment 5

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Yeah, that should be implemented.

Comment 6

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Is it a regression? I'm not sure. But let's fix it anyway.

Comment 7

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Attachment: Bug 1525470 - Include description in accessible hints. r=yzen

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/ac4f1b5527fd
Include description in accessible hints. r=yzen

Comment 9

[Pulsebot]

Backout by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/62a8571d3b92
Backed out changeset ac4f1b5527fd for failures in geckoview in org.mozilla.geckoview.test.AccessibilityTest.testCheckbox. CLOSED TREE

Comment 10

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/e30ed78a30ef
Include description in accessible hints. r=yzen

Comment 11

[Raul Gurzau (:RaulG)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e30ed78a30ef

Comment 12

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Do you think this is safe for beta uplift or shall we let it ride to release in 67?

Comment 13

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Let's let this ride.