1788992 - Screen reader cannot focus "Play" content overlay to play content after selecting video content on netflix.com

Status: NEW

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

STR

1. With a screen reader enabled... (I used VoiceOver on macOS)
2. Open netflix.com
3. Navigate to a list of movies/TV shows. On VoiceOver, I go to the first Heading level 2 titled My List.
4. Navigate to the next item, which should be a link to a specific movie/TV show: select the link. An overlay with the selected content appears over the main screen
5. Move to the next item to navigate inside of it (on macOS, this is VO+Right arrow)

Expected results

The cursor moves inside navigation overlay, allowing me to play the content, listen to descriptions of it such as the actors/actresses, select episodes, etc.

Actual results

The cursor continues navigating in the main screen, underneath the content overlay. As far as I can tell, there's no easy to way to navigate forward/back to enter the overlay.

I was unable to reproduce this problem in Safari.

I don't know if this affects all screen readers or just VoiceOver.

I'm not sure what the best workaround is. One workaround is to navigate to the first heading level 3 which seems to always be inside the content overlay. However, that puts the cursor in the center of the overlay rather than near the top which could make it difficult to find the "Play" or "Resume" button.

Configuration

• VoiceOver
• macOS 12.5.1
• Firefox 106.0a1 2022-09-02

Comment 1

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

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:asa, could you have a look please?

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Comment 2

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

My guess (which I haven't verified at all) is that Safari removes all other content from the a11y tree when a modal dialog is shown, whereas Firefox doesn't.