1934860 - VoiceOver reads unclear messages in Themes section of the Create/Edit pages

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Attachment: Screen Recording with the issue

Found in

• Nightly 135.a1

Affected versions

• Nightly 135.a1

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: macOS 15

Preconditions

• Ensure that the pref "browser.profiles.enabled" is set to true in about:config.
• Create at least one profile.
• Enable Voice Over Screen reader.

Steps to reproduce

1. Use VoiceOver to navigate to the Profiles panel from the Hamburger menu.
2. Use VoiceOver to enter Edit mode.
3. Navigate to the Themes section and focus on a theme using VoiceOver.

Expected result

• The user should be informed by VoiceOver that they can select a specific theme from the provided list.

Actual result

• The message provided by VoiceOver is unclear. Initially, it reads: "Article, you are currently in an Article." Moving forward, VoiceOver announces "Image," followed by the theme name. Please see the attached screen recording with sound for more details.

Regression range

• This is not a regression; it's introduced with the Profiles Switching feature.

Additional notes

• The same behavior is encountered on both the about:editprofile and about:newprofiles pages.

Comment 1

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Access s2 because:

1. The image has no alt attribute.
2. The theme items provide no semantic indication that they are selectable; e.g. role="button". A proper listbox pattern would probably be better, but that will also require keyboard navigation work.
3. The theme items provide no semantic indication as to whether they are selected or not.

Comment 2

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

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

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Comment 3

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

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

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Comment 4

[Cieara Meador [:cmkm]]

Attachment: Bug 1934860 - Correct screenreader and keyboard functionality for profile theme cards r?#profiles-reviewers

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/f462d29118c8
Correct screenreader and keyboard functionality for profile theme cards r=profiles-reviewers,jhirsch

Comment 6

[Serban Stanca [:SerbanS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f462d29118c8

Comment 7

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

Since nightly and release are affected, beta will likely be affected too.
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Comment 8

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

The patch landed in nightly and beta is affected.
:cmkm, is this bug important enough to require an uplift?

• If yes, please nominate the patch for beta approval.
• If no, please set status-firefox136 to wontfix.

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Comment 9

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

Limited to nightly only so does not need a beta uplift

Comment 10

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed using the latest Nightly 137.0a1 (Build ID: 20250213205200) on macOS 15 and VoiceOver - the theme names are now read, there is an indication that the themes are selectable, and the selected theme is announced correctly.