1795889 - VoiceOver on FireFox, focus moved to first element of page regardless of focus placement

Status: NEW

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[katehiga8]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Turn VoiceOver on.
2. Navigate to www.google.com on FireFox.

Actual results:

The Google search input on the page has autofocus. The focus seems to jump quickly from the input to the first element on the page.

Expected results:

I would expect the VoiceOver cursor to respect the focus set by the page and remain on the input.

This seems like problematic behavior if a webpage is managing a focus intentionally.

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Disability Access APIs' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

Hi katehiga8!

If you open 'VoiceOver Utility.app' and navigate to "Web" and then "General", do you have "When loading a webpage ... Automatically speak the webpage" checked? If you uncheck this box, do you experience the same behaviour?

Comment 3

[katehiga8]

Hi! Morgan,
That checkbox is already unchecked for me. I have both “Speak webpage summary” and “Automatically speak the webpage” unchecked. In addition, I have “While a webpage loads” set to “Do nothing”.

Comment 4

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

Good to know, thanks for having a look :)

Comment 5

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

I can repro this, and I can confirm that safari doesn't do this... I think we're firing a FocusedUIElementChangedNotification after page load when we shouldn't be.