1925352 - Sign In button opens page in a new tab without a visual or audible indication

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Messaging System, defect, P2)

Description

[Natalie Stroud [:nstroud]]

Attachment: Screenshot of Import Wizard in Nightly

Prerequisites:

Found in Nightly 133.0a1 (2024-10-17)(64-bit)

STR:

1. open about:welcome page
2. Click on the 'Sign In' button at the top right corner and observe behavior
   1. OR using the tab key on the keyboard, tab to the 'Sign In' button and press enter
   2. OR turn on NVDA. Once NVDA is on, tab to the 'Sign In' button and listen to NVDA output. Press enter and observe NVDA output/behavior

Expected:

Visually, there should be an icon adjacent to the visual text. Along with the icon, alt text should be applied indicating the button opens a new tab
For example: alt="opens in a new tab"

Actual:

Regardless if you click or press on the button using a keyboard, the button opens the Sign In page in a new tab. With NVDA turned on, there is no indication given to the screenreader that a new tab will open

Comment 1

[Shane Hughes [:aminomancer]]

Hey Gabrielle, I seem to remember guidance that this open in the background in order to avoid pulling users out of the onboarding experience. However, we could change that. Otherwise, should we make a more accessible announcement to the user?

Comment 2

[Negin Sauermann]

Context on why we changed from link to button style:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1834368#c18

And looks like we had some similar discussion about this in the past:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1830420#c1