1780228 - Aria-label not respected by input component

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect, P3)

Description

[aloha]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Launch FF with VO
2. data:text/html,<label for="example-number">Your favorite number?</label><input type="text" name="example-number" value="11" id="example-number" aria-label="The best number you know of">
3. Move VO cursor to input box

Actual results:

VO says: "11, Insertion at end of text, Your favorite number? edit text"

Expected results:

VO says: "11, Insertion at end of text, The best number you know of, edit text" or similar, reporting the current value

Comment 1

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

The core a11y layer is exposing this correctly. Morgan, any idea if/why Mac would be doing this differently?

Comment 2

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

Hmm, we aren't exposing the label via AXDescription, like we should be.
Maybe we need to add this role to providesLabelNotTitle?
I'll look at this :)

Comment 3

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

Attachment: Bug 1780228: Expose label, not title, on entries and spinbuttons r?eeejay

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/f48af348766e
Expose label, not title, on entries and spinbuttons r=eeejay

Comment 5

[Iulian Moraru]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f48af348766e

Comment 6

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

I managed to reproduce this issue on a 2022-07-19 Nightly build on macOS 12, using the STR from the Description. Verified as fixed on Firefox 105.0b7(build ID: 20220904185841) and Nightly 106.0a1(build ID: 20220904213226) on macOS 12.