1554293 - Make sure pocket cards are optimized for screen readers

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Kate Hudson :k88hudson]

Let's sure that our Pocket cards make sense when being read by a screen reader – i.e. making sure that the card appears as a navigational link.

Emily, can you work with :yzen on this one to test this in a screen reader and make any appropriate adjustments?

Comment 1

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/pull/5086

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/719da47cffec

Comment 3

[Marius Coman [:mcoman], Ecosystem QA]

I have verified this issue with the latest Firefox Nightly (69.0a1 Build ID - 20190618214619) installed, on Windows 10 x64 and Arch Linux. Now, I can confirm that the Pocket Recommendations cards are successfully detected and accessible through screen reader software.

However, we encountered some limitations on macOS, because we don't have a dedicated screen reader software (e.g. Jaws) and we have not managed to access the "New Tab" page's elements when we used the system's built-in one (Voice Over) instead.