1964130 - VoiceOver is not alerted when the Link Preview is visible on screen

Status: NEW

(Core :: Machine Learning, defect)

Description

[Natalie Stroud [:nstroud]]

Attachment: Wikipedia open with VoiceOver open as well and Link Preview visible

Prerequisites:

Found in 140.0a1 (2025-05-02) (64-bit)

STR:

1. Turn on VoiceOver
2. Open Nightly
3. In this step you can find any link. I chose to go to Google Scholar and search 'accessibility'
4. Using the tab key, move Voice Over focus to any link.
5. Press Shift + Alt to get the Link Preview to appear. Observe VoiceOver behavior

Expected / Actual:

At this time, when the link preview appears on screen, VoiceOver only announces “{Nightly}, has new, window” which is the only indication that anything has appeared. However, there is no way for a user to focus the preview (it cannot be accessed with tab key presses) and it is not being read by VoiceOver (unlike NVDA on Windows that does, at least, announce the preview’s content as an alert) - so a blind user would have no way of knowing if this is, in fact, a link preview they were trying to request and if so, what it says

Recommendation: use A11yUtils.Announce to make sure the alert is being read. Searchfox example

Comment 1

[Natalie Stroud [:nstroud]]

Updated 'Expected / Actual'

Comment 2

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

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

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