1794101 - Audio confirmation from NVDA when certain buttons are clicked

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, enhancement)

Description

[Ina Popescu, Desktop QA]

Attachment: 2022-10-07_14h27_23.mp4

Note

• NVDA to be installed.

Found in

• Nightly 107.0a1

Affected versions

• Firefox 105.0.2
• Firefox 106.0b8
• Nightly 107.0a1
• Firefox 102.3.0esr

Affected platforms

• Windows 10
• Windows 7

Steps to reproduce

1. Activate NVDA
2. Launch Firefox
3. Go to about:third-party and click on "Copy raw data to clipboard" button,
   about:support and click on "Copy raw data to clipboard" and "Copy text to clipboard" button,
   about:preferences, scroll down and click on "Check for updates" button

Expected result

• There should be an audio confirmation coming from the Accessibility tool to inform the user that the buttons in question were clicked.

Actual result

• There is no confirmation coming from the tool that buttons such as "Copy raw data to clipboard" were clicked.

Additional notes

• In case we select/unselect a check box, the NVDA reads "checked"/"unchecked".

Comment 1

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

:epopescu, if you think that's a regression, could you try to find a regression range using for example mozregression?

Comment 2

[James Teh [:Jamie] (away returning 28 Jan)]

Is there any confirmation visually when these buttons are clicked?

Comment 3

[Ina Popescu, Desktop QA]

(In reply to James Teh [:Jamie] from comment #2)

Is there any confirmation visually when these buttons are clicked?

There is the visual effect of hovering over the buttons and then the buttons being clicked on. Please see the attachment.

Comment 4

[James Teh [:Jamie] (away returning 28 Jan)]

Thanks for the report.

Checked/unchecked gets reported because the control changed to a different state. In contrast, the visual animation that occurs when you click a button is purely visual; there is no semantic change to the button that a screen reader can usefully report. Note that this is the same in other browsers. I guess a screen reader could choose to provide some indication regardless, but that would be a choice for the screen reader vendor to make.