174888 - Active Accessibility: unable to get keyboard shortcut for textbox node

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[dsirnapalli]

Enter the following code in a xul file and open it in Mozilla.
// xultextbox.xul
<description>
  <html:b> Testing XUL Textbox for Accessibility.. </html:b>
</description>
<box orient="vertical" flex="1">
  // TextBox with default text
  <textbox value="Default text..." accesskey="D"/>
  <spacer flex="1"/>
</box>

Open Inspect tool. Tab to the above textbox node.Watch the keyboard shortcut in
Inspect tool. It shows empty string. It should show "Alt+D".

Comment 1

[Kyle Yuan]

it's because the accesskey is an attribute of textbox, but we use its anonymous 
child html:input to create the accessible object, so we can't get the accesskey 
from html:input. maybe we should introduce a new class for XUL textbox.

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Kyle, I think we should just be able to change the binding so it says
xbl:inherits="accesskey", so that the accesskey gets copied onto the anonyous
html:input

Comment 3

[Kyle Yuan]

Attachment: inherit accesskey from textbox

aaron, you are right.

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

Comment on attachment 103271 [details] [diff] [review]
inherit accesskey from textbox

r=aaronl

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comment on attachment 103271 [details] [diff] [review]
inherit accesskey from textbox

sr=bzbarsky

Comment 6

[Kyle Yuan]

-> me

Comment 7

[Kyle Yuan]

checked in.