1588784 - Expose heading level more clearly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: Accessibility Tools, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Anne (:annevk)]

The accessibility tree shows that something is a heading and under attributes you can find its level, but it would be nice if this was a little more prominent, perhaps even visible in the main tree given its significance.

(See also bug 998590 comment 6.)

Comment 1

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Along similar lines, we should consider exposing the landmark role from the xml-roles attribute if the role is "landmark". If searching for "level" in the attributes is not intuitive, searching for the "xml-roles" attribute is even less so. :)

Perhaps we could just expose this in the tree where we expose the role? "heading level 2" instead of just "heading" and "main landmark" instead of just "landmark"?

Comment 2

[Anne (:annevk)]

That seems reasonable to me. Perhaps add the distinction between parenthesis as in "heading (level 2)" and "landmark (main)" so it's clear what the role is and what the modifier is.

Comment 4

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Attachment: Bug 1588784 - [devtools] Add heading level in accessibility tree. r=#devtools.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/94f1fd906b41
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/00a26f5716e1
[devtools] Add heading level in accessibility tree. r=devtools-reviewers,bomsy.

Comment 6

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

As noted in bug 2044904, this change seems to be worth being mentioned in the dev release notes together with the change in the other bug.

Sebastian

Comment 7

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/00a26f5716e1