1905713 - [a11y] The "Add Firefox Widget" button doesn't work with TalkBack enabled, on the Xiaomi Pad5

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android :: Onboarding, defect)

Description

[Adina Petridean QA [:apetridean]]

Attachment: add.mp4

Prerequisites:

Enable the TalkBack on the tablet.
Fresh install the Firefox app.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the FIrefox application.
2. Double tap on the "Add firefox widget" button.
3. Observe the behaviour.

Expected behavior

All cards and all the items from the cards are reached with TB navigation gestures, in a logical order.

Actual behavior

The Add button on the "Firefox search widget" card doesn't work after double-tapping it.

Device information

• Firefox version: Firefox 128.0b9
• Android device model: Xiaomi Pad5 (Android 13)

Any additional information?

This issue was observed only on Xiaomi Pad5 (Android 13).

Comment 1

[❌ Anna Yeddi [:ayeddi] ❌ On leave until 2027-01-04]

Triaging it as access-S2 because the action is blocked for a user and even if there is a workaround to add Fx as a widget later on, a user would have to proactively search for it somewhere, investing in it more physical and mental resources than a non-TalkBack user needs to, this would nullify adding this option into the onboarding flow altogether.

It also may be a sign that other assistive technology may not work for this button, i.e. a switch or other alternative input software and even an external (Bluetooth) keyboards too.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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

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Comment 3

[Vlad Dreghici [:vdreghici]]

I will be bumping this up to S2 due to a11y severity, it also might affect multiple Mi devices.

Comment 4

[aorban]

Investigated the issue on a different xiaomi device, Xiaomi mi 9, with android 11, MIUI 12.5.1 Global version and using the stock launcher.
From my testing, I saw that this bug reproduces even if talkback is not enabled, because in AddSearchWidgetPrompt#showAddSearchWidgetPrompt the method call appWidgetManager.isRequestPinAppWidgetSupported returns false when the user is trying to add a widget while using the app.

The widget can be added from the phone launcher's widget screen (long tapping from the home page) or, if the user is using a different launcher, I tried Nova Launcher and the app behaved as expected.

We could hide the "add firefox widget" onboarding page if the widget can't be placed as this seems like a launcher limitation.

Comment 5

[:Gela]

We are redoing onboarding so this will not be fixed.