Come up with the solution for an accessible box model highlighter.
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(DevTools :: Inspector, task, P3)
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(Reporter: yzen, Assigned: yzen)
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Right now highlighter is not very useful to screen reader users but is probably workable with other AT's (such as screen magnifiers). We add some presentation roles to bits and pieces of the rendered highlighter components already but it might be not enough.
They are now showing up in the accessibility tree as the descendants of the top level content document. This is problematic because if it is open, we automatically start running audits on those accessible objects and they do not complete successfully because often the highlighter nodes are removed too fast from the a11y tree.
A temporary way to address this issue is to do what we do with the accessibility highlighter and hide the rendered highlighter components with aria-hidden. This way we will avoid issues with accessible objects from the highlighter showing up in the accessibility tree.
A long term solution would be to identify how we can make box model highlighter information (and/or interaction) more useful for users with screen readers and the
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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Pushed by yura.zenevich@gmail.com: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/17733b4ac5ef hide box model highlighter from a11y tree. r=rcaliman
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 4•4 years ago
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The leave-open keyword is there and there is no activity for 6 months.
:yzen, maybe it's time to close this bug?
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Updated•4 years ago
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