1570482 - Missing state-changed events when selected search engine changed via arrow keys in Nightly address bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1567384

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Joanmarie Diggs]

Attachment: selection-changed.py

Steps to reproduce:

1. Launch Firefox Nightly and the attached accessible-event listener
2. In the address bar, begin typing some text to trigger a popup appearing (e.g. "foo")
3. When the pop-up with suggestions appears, Down Arrow to the bottom of the list, landing on the horizontal row of search engines. Or if you prefer, just up arrow one time to settings and then left arrow to the search engines).
4. Arrow left and right (i.e. amongst Google, Amazon, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ebay, etc., etc.)

Expected results: Each time a new search engine icon became highlighted/selected, the listener would print out an accessible state-changed event.

Actual results: Each time a new search engine icon became highlighted/selected, the listener does not print out an accessible state-changed event.

Impact: The focused/selected item is being changed as a result of pressing Left/Right, but assistive technologies are not being notified. Thus they cannot notify users where they are.

Notice also that as you up and down arrow amongst the suggestions in the popup, events ARE emitted. It's just the search engine choices which seem to be silent.