1619752 - VoiceOver doesn't recognise link-groups in firefox

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect, P1)

Description

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

Safari treats this as a link group, we just go directly into the link items one by one.

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Comment 1

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

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

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Comment 2

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Setting P1 for now because of the relationship to bug 1616679. Morgan, please feel free to reprioritize if this is not appropriate.

Comment 3

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

Attachment: Bug 1619752: Update link actions, introduce AXFocusableAncestor attribute.

Comment 4

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

OK, so it isn't related to focusable ancestor.. instead this could be fixed by exposing an attribute, AXSelected, on all nodes and setting it to false. Unless it is an actual selectable that is selected, but that's a future patch.

Comment 5

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Attachment: Bug 1619752 - Use AXSelected=false to tell VoiceOver about link groups. r?morgan

I really don't understand why this is what VoiceOver needs, but it seems to do the trick.

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/94fa8a93f4c7
Use AXSelected=false to tell VoiceOver about link groups. r=morgan

Comment 7

[Cristina Coroiu [:ccoroiu]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/94fa8a93f4c7

Comment 8

[Cristian Fogel [:cfogel]]

Confirmed the issue with 75.0a1 (2020-03-03) on macOS 10.15.3
Fix verified with 77.0b4, link selection as expected on click as well.