1904430 - [a11y] Information about the current tab is conveyed visually, but not through TalkBack's screen reader description

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1904050

(Firefox for Android :: Tabs, defect)

Description

[Olivia Hall [:olivia]]

1. Start TalkBack
2. Open multiple tabs
3. Select Tabs
4. Navigate through tabs list
5. Notice there is a purple visual highlight ring to indicate the current tab; however, the current tab is not conveyed to screen readers
   • Current behavior is <website name> for each tab selection.

Suggestion:

• Adjust the content description to say Current tab, <website name> on the tab with the purple visual indicator or similar.
• Alternatively, if something else is conveying programmatic state about the tabs, that could also be used.

Comment 1

[Olivia Hall [:olivia]]

Attachment: Missing Content Description Indicating Current Tab.png

Comment 2

[Olivia Hall [:olivia]]

Current content description for every tab is <website name>. The purple current tab's content description is what needs an update.

Comment 3

[Olivia Hall [:olivia]]

Attachment: Current Content Description .png

(Notice the green TalkBack focus indicator, purple current tab indicator, and content description of just the website.)

Comment 4

[Nicholas Poon (redirect NI to [e-mail]) [:Nick]]

Hey Olivia, thanks for filing this bug. I believe that this is already being addressed in Bug 1904050 so I'm going to close this as duplicate but feel free to reopen it if I have misunderstood anything.

Comment 6

[Olivia Hall [:olivia]]

Thanks for identifying the duplicate, I watched the video on the patch and it is the same issue!