1853099 - Links from the onboarding card are read as buttons by screen readers

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Messaging System, defect, P3)

Description

[Alexandru Trif, Desktop Test Engineering [:atrif]]

Found in

• 119.0a1 (2023-09-13)

Affected versions

• 119.0a1 (2023-09-13)

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: Ubuntu 20, macOS 12, Windows 10x64
• Unaffected platforms: none

Preconditions

• browser.shopping.experience2023.enabled:true
• browser.shopping.experience2023.optedIn:0
• screen reader enabled

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a random Amazon product.
2. Use the keyboard to select the Learn more, privacy policy, and terms of use links.

Expected result

• Screen readers identify the above-selected strings as links.

Actual result

• Screen reader identifies the above-selected strings as buttons.

Regression

• Not a regression.

Additional notes

• The Launch analyzer on Fakepost.com from the Updates available card is correctly read as a link.
• The Fakespot by Mozilla determines review quality from the How we determine review quality card is correctly read as a link.

Comment 1

[Negin Sauermann]

I think this can be marked as a duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1849577 which recommended updating the button to links.

Comment 2

[Anna Yeddi [:ayeddi]]

Attachment: Nightly-links-announced-as-links-by-NVDA.png

I think this one was fixed: on today's Nightly all 3 links are announced as links by NVDA 2023.2 and the Not now is styled to look like a button and is announced as such.