1905352 - Additional Improvements to TalkBack experience on Translations Download Languages Screen

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Translations, task, P3)

Description

[Olivia Hall [:olivia]]

In bug 1900152, we followed the recommendation to put Focus on the back button on the downloads screen, because Android was arbitrarily moving focus after a download in an inconsistent way. (More details both on the bug and this Figma thread.) The experience is now consistent after this bug and for a deletion, focus goes to the item above it and for a download, focus goes to the back button.

We would have liked to move focus to where the download/delete list item went as the top choice. However, both myself and :giorga made multiple multi-day attempts to try this path with no success. We also tried moving to the headers, which was another option, but similar result of focus not consistently taking and continuing to arbitrarily select a node to take focus.

It is unclear if there is an issue moving focus while the screen is dynamically changing or if there is a deeper like this Android LazyColumn focus bug Google bug. (Our issue was not with focus order, but something about this bug rings similar, we are also using a Column and LazyColumn here, where we are trying to move focus.)

This bug is to see if we can improve this experience further and move focus to where the item went and also reattempt after the Google bug is fixed, in case is part of what is blocking or causing chaotic issues.

Comment 1

[Olivia Hall [:olivia]]

This bug might now be able to be adjusted some now that bug 1909001 has occured. After bug 1909001, the downloads list items do not move until after a download and "Download All" is no longer an option. I think some of the original issue was the list items moving so frequently.