1949597 - Ensure about:processes dynamic updates are not interfering with screen reader announcements

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Performance Monitoring, defect)

Description

[Anna Yeddi [:ayeddi]]

About:processes tables are dynamically updating values of buttons and table itself, while a button is still focused. It especially confusing for screen reader users who may not be able to hear the announcement fully (won't know the label of the button) and/or would loose a focus position.

Steps To Reproduce:

• open about:processes
• navigate to the first row of the table and to the toggle of threads row (>)
• observe a screen reader announcement
• navigate to the middle of the table controls (to one of Profile buttons) and observe the focus position and its change with the table updates

Comment 1

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

Triaging this as S2 because I believe this makes the view pretty unusable for screen reader users, and I'm not aware of a way to disable these updates to make it usable. :ayeddi please feel free to re-triage if I've misunderstood the issue here

Comment 2

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

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

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Comment 3

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

(In reply to Anna Yeddi [:ayeddi] from comment #0)

• navigate to the first row of the table and to the toggle of threads row (>)

Note: the thread list is only enabled on Nightly.

Comment 4

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

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

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