1590925 - dictation in voice control does not function after upgrading to Catalina

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Steps to reproduce:

Used Mac OS Catalina voice controls to input form data into Firefox

Actual results:

Nothing

Expected results:

Voice input is transcribed and appears in form control

Comment 1

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Reported here: https://twitter.com/daiyitastic/status/1187121397979418624

Comment 2

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Added a11y-review?, but not sure what other accessibility keywords or product+component changes would be best.

Comment 3

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

They updated that it's dictation through Voice Control that's not working. Other Voice Control commands like navigation do work still.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Clarifying summary. Voice Control is a new feature in Catalina so it's not expected to have worked before upgrading to Catalina. Dictation is an older feature in macOS that is now a part of Voice Control in Catalina and that's what seems to have broken here.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I've verified that Dictation (in English) works as expected on macOS 10.14 Mojave. I can dictate text which gets inserted into text areas on web pages like this one. After upgrading to macOS 10.15 and activating Voice Control, dictation fails in Firefox. As to what changed that broke this, I have no idea.

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:Jamie, could you have a look please?

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