1949033 - Empty name error message on about:newprofiles not announced by NVDA

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect, P2)

Description

[Natalie Stroud [:nstroud]]

Prerequisites:

Found on 137.0a1 (2025-02-18) (64-bit)
Make sure browser.profiles.enabled is set to true

STR:

NOTE: Ensure there is nothing in the 'Profile name' textbox when clicking/pressing the 'Done editing' button

1. Turn on NVDA
2. Open about:newprofile in Nightly
3. Move NVDA focus to the 'Done editing' button and press ENTER. Observe NVDA output

Expected / Actual:

If the Profile name textbox is blank and a screen reader user tries to click/press the 'Done editing' button, an error message appears on screen under the textbox but is not announced by NVDA.

Screen recording

Comment 1

[Niklas Baumgardner [:niklas]]

Attachment: Bug 1949033 - Error message should have role alert. r=#profiles-reviewers

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/b2b4ffbfd561
Error message should have role alert. r=profiles-reviewers,jhirsch

Comment 3

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b2b4ffbfd561

Comment 4

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

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

• If yes, please nominate the patch for beta approval.
• If no, please set status-firefox137 to wontfix.

For more information, please visit BugBot documentation.

Comment 5

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Reproduced the initial issue using Nightly 137.0a1 (Build ID: 20250215092323) on Windows 11.
Verified as fixed using the latest Nightly 138.0a1 - on Windows 11 - the alert "leaving without naming a profile" is read when the user clicks the Done button.