1654603 - contentEditables with embedded divs throw off textmarkers.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

STR, with VoiceOver on:

1. Visit data:text/html,<div contentEditable="true" tabindex="0" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true"><div><br /></div></div>
2. After focus lands in the contentEditable, type something.

Result: VoiceOver doesn't consistently speak the text being typed. Moreover, contrary to normal inputs and textareas, a connected braille display does not show the typed text. In regular inputs and textareas, it already does that after bug 1653421 landed.

A slightly more complicated version of this can be found at https://twitter.com, when composing a new tweet.

Comment 1

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Looks like it is not the textmarker's fault. We apparently should be dispatching the events from the root editable node, and not the embedded div.

Comment 2

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Attachment: Bug 1654603 - Support text entry in contenteditable nested nodes. r?morgan

VoiceOver expects text value change events to originate from the editable ancestor.

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/1df915086ba8
Support text entry in contenteditable nested nodes. r=morgan

Comment 4

[Dorel Luca [:dluca]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1df915086ba8

Comment 5

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

The patch landed in nightly and beta is affected.
:eeejay, is this bug important enough to require an uplift?
If not please set status_beta to wontfix.

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