1922106 - The sidebar in the viewer is not marked up as a group and has no descriptive label

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P3)

Description

[Anna Yeddi [:ayeddi]]

Attachment: Accessibility Inspector of Firefox showing SidebarContainer element is being a generic accessible with a null name

Steps to reproduce

0. Ensure a screen reader is running (i.e. NVDA on Windows)
1. Open a pdf like https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/master/test/pdfs/tracemonkey.pdf
2. Reach the toggle sidebar button (on the top left of the viewer) and press Enter
3. Confirm the sidebar is open and navigate to the first button in the sidebar using Tab key (to reach the "Thumbnails")
   1. Note: while bug 1921037 is not resolved, use Tab+Shift to navigate to the sidebar (to a link to the last page of the document in the Thumbnails)
4. Observe the announcement when the focus enters the sidebar

Expected behavior

1. The grouping information is announced, including its label, i.e. PDF sidebar, group or similar, for instance by using a landmark with a PDF Sidebar label)

Actual behavior

1. No grouping information is announced, the sidebar container lacks a landmark or a group role and has no accessible name

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:calixte, could you have a look please?

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