1713873 - Accessibility issues with Firefox Home (new tab)

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect, P3)

Description

[joshas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open new tab with Firefox Home (non personalized, with default settings). Right click and select "Inspect Accessibility Properties". In DevTools select "Check for issues: All issues" to run accessibility test.

Actual results:

There are quite a few accessibility issues: impossible to focus search field with keyboard, search field placeholder text has low contrast, some clickable elements are missing interactive semantics, images should have alt attributes with descriptions or empty ones, "Privacy notice" outline is in wrong place (this might be a different issue).

Expected results:

First page that is presented to user must have no accessibility issues.

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'DevTools::Accessibility Tools' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Issue is about the new tab page, devtools are used to check for issues only here.

Comment 3

[Andrei Purice]

Reproduced on the latest Firefox Nightly 91.0a1 (2021-06-08) on Ubuntu 18.04. The issues present are : "text label", "keyboard" and "contrast".
Cannot check on older versions of Firefox as I believe the "Inspect Accessibility Properties" is missing from the context menu.
Assigning it a severity of S3 and flags.