255076 - Back & Forward buttons not exposed via Accessibility API, only their associated popu-menus

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Peter Korn]

1. Launch GOK
2. Launch Mozilla with some page
3. Follow a link on that page to another page
4. Select GOK's Toolbar keyboard
5. Note there is a single active "Back" button (from the toolbar, as distinct
from the "back" button of GOK), not both a "Back" button and a "Back" popup
menu.  Selecting that Back button highlights the popup menu arrow to the right
of the "Back" button.  There should be both a button and a popup menu, and
selecting the button shoud be equivalen to clicking it with the mouse; selecting
the popup menu should be the equivalent of a GTK+ combo-box: you should get a
new dynamic keyboard with the contents of that menu.
6. Click the Back button by hand on the toolbar, then to back to the main GOK
keyboard and select "Toolbar" again.  Now you have a single active "Forward"
button, instead of the button and popup-menu (same issue as with the Back button
described in step #5).

Note: what is happening here is that the Accessibility API implementation is
missing for the back/forward buttons, and wrong for the popup menus.

Comment 1

[Evan Yan]

I can't reproduce this bug in current trunk build.

There are two "Back" button is GOK Toolbar keyboard (besides the "back" button of GOK). One is for the "Back" button, and the other is for the "Back" popup. The "Back" popup menu can be activated by the button displayed in GOK.

However, I can't select any item in the Back popup menu via GOK. If I want to go to some page in Back History other than the last page, I have to click "Back" button multi-times, but not select the page in the "Back" popup menu and go to the page directly.

What's more, the operation on "Back" popup via GOK is really a resource-consumer, which makes the browser and GOK very slow.

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I can't reproduce this bug in current trunk build.
> 
> There are two "Back" button is GOK Toolbar keyboard (besides the "back" button
> of GOK). One is for the "Back" button, and the other is for the "Back" popup.
> The "Back" popup menu can be activated by the button displayed in GOK.
> 
> However, I can't select any item in the Back popup menu via GOK. 

Evan, are the current problems due to a bug in Firefox or GOK? Should we close this bug because this problem is actually fixed now? We can open another bug for the other problems you mention -- either as bugs under GOK or Firefox depending on where you think the issues are.

Comment 3

[Evan Yan]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Evan, are the current problems due to a bug in Firefox or GOK? Should we close
> this bug because this problem is actually fixed now? We can open another bug
> for the other problems you mention -- either as bugs under GOK or Firefox
> depending on where you think the issues are.
> 
The situation is, the popup menu button can be grabed by GOK, and the popup menu also can be activated by taking action on the button. But the items in the popup menu can not be accessed.

I'm not sure is this another bug, or part of this bug.

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> The situation is, the popup menu button can be grabed by GOK, and the popup
> menu also can be activated by taking action on the button. But the items in the
> popup menu can not be accessed.
> I'm not sure is this another bug, or part of this bug.

Sounds like this bug should be closed and another bug should be opened. 

Comment 5

[Evan Yan]

bug 335198 is filed.

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527381