1886961 - NVDA does not read the Highlight colors out loud when Hovered with the mouse cursor

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Found in

• 126.0a1 (2024-03-21)

Affected versions

• 126.0a1 (2024-03-21)
• Beta 125.0b3

Affected platforms

• ALL

Preconditions:
pdfjs.enableHighlightEditor - true
pdfjs.enableHighlightFloatingButton - true
Enable NVDA.

Steps to reproduce

1. Have a PDF opened in Firefox.
2. Highlight any text.
3. Hover the mouse cursor over the Colors from the Highlight submenu.

Expected result

• Each color should be read out loud by NVDA when we hove the mouse cursor on top of them.

Actual result

• The NVDA does not read the colors out loud when we hover over them.

Regression range
Not a Regression

Comment 1

[Anna Yeddi [:ayeddi]]

Attachment: Accessibility Inspector results for the button and options

Since these buttons do not have any visible text always, NVDA mouse tracking will not read the text, which is a known issue with NVDA mouse tracking.

The options are rendered as expected in the Accessibility tree (refer to the screenshot attached), with an informative labels. So the lack of on-hover announcement, in this case, is the NVDA bug.

What we could do is to add an on-screen text next to color option circles, so there is an on-screen text (that is included in the option markup) - this should be announced by the NVDA.

Comment 2

[Anna Yeddi [:ayeddi]]

I'll triage it as access-s4 since this is not a delightful pattern in any case, but yet the issue is not as severe and is largely dependent on the assistive technology software, unless we'll change the visual appearance

Comment 3

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

FWIW this works as VO because VO uses the same API as it does for forward/backward navigating to get labels.