Open Bug 1714402 Opened 4 years ago Updated 2 years ago

[meta] reduced-motion setting is ignored in some areas

Categories

(Firefox :: Theme, task, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Theme
Version:
Firefox 89
Type:
task

Tracking

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Project Flags:
Accessibility Severity s2

People

(Reporter: mozilla, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: access, meta, Whiteboard: [fidefe-quality-foundation])

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Steps to reproduce:

In Windows 10 Settings, in Display, set "Show animations in Windows" to Off.
In Firefox about:config, set "ui.prefersReducedMotion" to integer 1. Restart Firefox.

Actual results:

Download a file. The download indicator/menu button will animate (grow/shrink, progressively "sketch" the circle and checkmark, etc)

Open a new tab when the tab bar is already full of open tabs and some tab early (leftward) in the list is selected. The whole tab bar will glide rapidly to the new tab on the far right side.

Expected results:

Download indicator should simply change to a static "complete" shape/colour when a download is complete, with no animations.

The tab bar should jump instantaneously to the new tab instead of gliding.

Component: Untriaged → Disability Access
OS: Unspecified → Windows 10
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64

Oops - to reproduce, the Windows 10 Display menu is in the Ease of Access menu.

While this is an accessibility issue, it should be fixed in frontend. Triaging to firefox::theme for now, though I'm not sure if that's the right place either

Component: Disability Access → Theme
Keywords: access
Whiteboard: [access-s2]
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 10 → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Whiteboard: [access-s2] → [access-s2] [fidefe-Quality-Foundation]
Whiteboard: [access-s2] [fidefe-Quality-Foundation] → [access-s2][fidefe-quality-foundation]
Severity: -- → S2

assigning this as S2, we should check if this is als reproducible on mac.

Keywords: meta
Summary: ui.prefersReducedMotion is ignored in some areas → [meta] ui.prefersReducedMotion is ignored in some areas
Blocks: 1804411
No longer blocks: 1804411
Depends on: 1804411
Depends on: 1804414
Depends on: 984589
Depends on: 1804421
Priority: -- → P3
Depends on: 1811372
Depends on: 1813138
Depends on: 1813140
Depends on: 1813146
Depends on: 1813184
Severity: S2 → N/A
Type: defect → task
Summary: [meta] ui.prefersReducedMotion is ignored in some areas → [meta] reduced-motion setting is ignored in some areas
Accessibility Severity: --- → s2
Whiteboard: [access-s2][fidefe-quality-foundation] → [fidefe-quality-foundation]

You don't need to set the ui.prefersReducedMotion pref to 1 if you set your Windows 11 system setting "Accessibility > Animation Effects" to "Off". Firefox will honor Windows' "Animation Effects" system setting. The ui.prefersReducedMotion pref is only needed if you want to override your Windows system setting.

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