1884733 - VoiceOver does not announce aria-placeholder

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Audrey]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Visit: https://jsfiddle.net/audrey_bee/uwh1todm/
Turn on VoiceOver
Click or tab into input field

Actual results:

The placeholder is correctly listed as an accessibility property of the input element but VO still announces: "edit text, blank".

Expected results:

VO should announce: "placeholder edit text, blank".

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

[Nathan LaPré]

Thanks for reporting! Confirmed by Morgan on macOS, CC'd here. Since this just isn't accessible, I'm calling it an S2.

Comment 3

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

Attachment: Bug 1884733: Add support for HTML placeholder, aria-placeholder via AXPlaceholderValue r?eeejay

Comment 4

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

Attachment: Bug 1884733: Add support for HTML placeholder, aria-placeholder via AXPlaceholderValue r?eeejay

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/bb96cef2989d
Add support for HTML placeholder, aria-placeholder via AXPlaceholderValue r=eeejay

Comment 7

[Norisz Fay [:noriszfay]]

Backed out for causing ba failure on browser_aria_placeholder.js

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Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/7bdff141ad24
Add support for HTML placeholder, aria-placeholder via AXPlaceholderValue r=eeejay

Comment 9

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/7bdff141ad24

Comment 10

[Bianca Hidecuti, Desktop Test Engineering [:bhidecuti]]

I was able to replicate the issue on an affected Firefox Nightly 125.0a1 build, from 2024-03-11, under macOS 12.6.6, following the steps described in Comment 0.
Verified as fixed on Firefox RC 126.0, build iD 20240506203248, using macOS 12.6.6.
VO announces: "placeholder edit text, blank", after clicking/tabbing into input field from https://jsfiddle.net/audrey_bee/uwh1todm/.