1881743 - Voice Over will not read highlighted text during editing inside a PDF

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P1)

Description

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Found in

• Nightly 125.0a1 (2024-02-23)

Affected versions

• Nightly 125.0a1 (2024-02-23)
• Beta 124.0b2
• Release 123

Affected platforms

• macOS

Steps to reproduce

1. Open any PDF in Firefox.
2. Enable the Highlight tool.
3. Highlight Any Random text.
4. Use Voice over to reach the highlighted text.

Expected result

• Voice over should read the Highlighted text.

Actual result

• The Highlighted text is read as image.

Regression range
Not a Regression

Comment 1

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

The severity field for this bug is set to S3. However, the accessibility severity is higher, .
:calixte, could you consider increasing the severity?

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Comment 2

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/pdf.js] [Editor] Improve the accessibility of the highlight editor (bug 1881743) (#17788)

Comment 3

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Marking 115 and 123 as affected as this is a long standing issue with highlighted text.

Comment 4

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

(In reply to Marco Castelluccio [:marco] from comment #3)

Marking 115 and 123 as affected as this is a long standing issue with highlighted text.

We morphed the bug to be only about highlighted text during editing, so this does not affect older versions where the editing feature is either not existing or disabled.

Comment 5

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

I filed bug 1885505 about the highlights outside edit mode.

Comment 6

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed in our latest Nightly build 125.0a1 (2024-03-17).