2059851 - [a11y] HNT Customize panel back buttons lack accessible name

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Claire Joeckel]

Attachment: Screenshot 2026-07-31 140143.png

Impacted Section/Element

HNT ("Settings" dialog, "Firefox Themes", "Widgets", and "Topics" dialogs)

Steps to Reproduce

On HNT, open DevTools. Activate the "Customize" button in the bottom right corner of the page. In the resulting "Settings" dialog, activate the "See more themes", "Manage widgets", and "Manage topics" buttons. In the resulting dialogs, inspect the "Back" right arrow icon buttons.

Expected Behavior

name conveys button function.

Actual Behavior

name is undefined.

User Impact

The right arrow icon buttons have visual labels and functions of "Back" but this is not announced to screen reader users.

WCAG 2.2 References

• WCAG 4.1.2 - Name, Role, Value

Recommendations

Apply aria-label="Back" to the right arrow icon buttons.

Testing Environment

Windows 11

Assistive Technology Used

Any

Further Reference

• WebAIM: Accessible Name Computation

Severity

2-Significant

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug is an accessibility bug, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

This seems like it could potentially use moz-page-header but just adding the aria-label would definitely be the quicker fix. Page header uses "Go back" (so does about:addons)

Comment 3

[Reem Hamoui]

Attachment: Bug 2059851 - Create accessible label for customize menu's subpanel back buttons. r=#home-newtab-wattle-reviewers-rotation

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/aeb130f65fd8
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/f4a12ab02e31
Create accessible label for customize menu's subpanel back buttons. r=fluent-reviewers,Dre,bolsson

Comment 5

[Atila Butkovits]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f4a12ab02e31

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

Since nightly and release are affected, beta will likely be affected too.
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Comment 7

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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

• If yes, please nominate the patch for beta approval.
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• If no, please set status-firefox156 to wontfix.

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