1953790 - [contextual-password-manager] Screen Reader incorrectly announce required fields in Add/Edit Password form

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect, P3)

Description

[Bianca Hidecuti, Desktop Test Engineering [:bhidecuti]]

Found in

• 138.0a1 (2025-03-13)

Affected versions

• 138.0a1

Preconditions

• Have the pref ‘browser.contextual-password-manager.enabled’ set to true
• Have the Passwords sidebar opened
• Have a Screen Reader enabled

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: macOS 13, Ubuntu 22.04, Windows 11
• Unaffected platforms: none

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the Add password form
2. Navigate through the fields using the "Tab" key and listen to the Screen Reader output

Expected result

• The Screen Reader should announce only the field name and required status

Actual result

• on macOS - VoiceOver reads "Website address, required invalid data, edit text" for the Website address field and "Password, required invalid data, edit text" for the Password field before user input
• on Windows - NVDA reads "Website address edit required invalid entry has autocomplete" for the Website address field and "Password edit required invalid entry has autocomplete" for the Password field before user input
• Ubuntu - Orca reads "Website address, autocomplete required invalid entry" for the Website field and "Password autocomplete required invalid entry" for the Passwords field before user input

Regression range

• Not a regression, as this is a new feature

Additional notes

• Also reproducing in the Edit password form when the Password field is empty