1860465 - Please provide a method to disable the influence of third-party accessibility software

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android :: General, defect)

Description

[jian]

Attachment: Record_2023-10-23-08-56-11.mp4

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0

Steps to reproduce:

I created a blank accessibility app, even though it has no functionality

Actual results:

Firefox will generate various exceptions, such as page scrolling exceptions
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1858834

I mentioned two points in the bug above.One more thing to add is that when selecting text on some websites, it will automatically return to the top.This experience makes Firefox almost unusable.

Expected results:

The issues mentioned above also occur in geckoview. I hope to provide a switch that can disable the impact of accessibility features, such as adding a method to SessionAccessibility to set sEnabled to false.

Comment 1

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

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:jonalmeida, could you have a look please?

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Comment 2

[Jonathan Almeida [:jonalmeida]]

(In reply to jian from comment #0)

I mentioned two points in the bug above.One more thing to add is that when selecting text on some websites, it will automatically return to the top.This experience makes Firefox almost unusable.

Could you file this as a separate bug? This looks like something we'd want to fix sooner.

Comment 3

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

We certainly need to fix any Gecko problems that occur simply as a result of an accessibility service running, even when said service isn't doing anything. Some of this should be fixed already recently; see bug 1849398. Please file additional bugs if there are remaining problems.

Beyond that, if any accessibility service is interfering, that is likely a bug in the accessibility service. The ideal course of action in that case would be to disable the problematic service, since it's likely to interfere with other apps as well.

I don't think we should be providing a way to disable support for accessibility services within Firefox. The entire point of accessibility services is to enable accessibility.

Comment 4

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

See comment 3.