1682865 - In combo edit fields, we don't expose text and popup properties to VoiceOver correctly.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Test case: data:text/html,<input role="combobox" />.

Steps:

1. Open the above test case.
2. Focus the input with VoiceOver.
3. Type in text.

Results:

• VoiceOver doesn't echo the text that is typed.
• The typed text doesn't get displayed on the Braille display until you press Left or Right Arrow, which moves the caret. This and the above point suggest we don't fire a certain event to update the text for VoiceOver, either through Value or some other means that normal text fields do.
• We don't expose the fact that there are popup menu properties, like for selectelements, to VoiceOver.

Safari does all of the above correctly.

Real-life impact is that on https://google.com, in the search field, no text is spoken when typed or being deleted.

Reported on the AppleVis forum post about the VoiceOver release preview.

Comment 1

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

Attachment: Bug 1682865: Map roles::EDITCOMBOBOX to mozTextAccessible r?eeejay

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/b4dd286ab24a
Map roles::EDITCOMBOBOX to mozTextAccessible r=eeejay

Comment 3

[Narcis Beleuzu [:NarcisB]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b4dd286ab24a