Closed Bug 1567485 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Accessibility: Changes in Combo Boxes not always sent to Assistive Technology

Categories

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Disability Access APIs
Version:
68 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: elliottabarnes, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

Tested on both Windows 7 and 10 X64 with the latest release of the NVDA screen reader and Firefox 68.

When interacting with several combo boxes with the NVDA screen reader, I've noticed that when the selected item is changed NVDA doesn't always announce the change. I'll provide a specific example URL below and exact steps to reproduce; I'm logging this as a Firefox bug, due to the fact that when I test this with a Firefox build (56.0.2) and NVDA, this works as expected making me think that Firefox may be the issue. Unfortunately I only have one example URL to hand, but to reproduce (unfortunately this can only be tested in the UK):

  1. Navigate to https://www.dominos.co.uk/, and when prompted enter any UK-based postcode

  2. Add anything from the menu to your basket, and then click on the "Checkout" link

  3. Enter any contact info in the boxes provided (please remember not to accidentally select the "Cash" option and accidentally submit your order!), and select "Card" when asked for an option of how you would like to pay

  4. When prompted to enter card information, load up NVDA and navigate to the "Month" combo box for the card expiry date

Actual results:

When changing the selected item in the combo box with either the up/down cursors, the change of selection isn't automatically announced by NVDA; the only way to accurately see what is selected is to change the combo box selection, and then tab/alt tab back to the combo box, at which time NVDA will read the properly selected item.

Expected results:

As with other combo boxes, in this case the browser should send NVDA the proper state of the change in selection. As mentioned earlier, when tested with build 56.0.2 of the browser this exact same combo box works without issue.

Component: Untriaged → Disability Access APIs
Product: Firefox → Core

This example has now been fixed; either by a Firefox update (which seems more likely), or by a change in the way that this particular example combo box is presented. Will close for now.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME

I haven't looked at the site you specified, but I'm guessing this was probably bug 1473234, which was fixed in Firefox 68.

(In reply to James Teh [:Jamie] from comment #2)

I haven't looked at the site you specified, but I'm guessing this was probably bug 1473234, which was fixed in Firefox 68.

This was exactly it - thank you. :) Oddly I'm sure that this wasn't working when I tested with 68, but is definitely fixed now!

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