279941 - Expose forms in MSAA

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Aaron Leventhal]

Screen readers have features to navigate by "form"

This means we need to expose accessible objects for the form nodes.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Attachment: Create generic accessible for "form"

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Looks good to me, out of curiosity though which Screen readers have this
feature, and what on "form" is navigateable?

Plus when we have a situation like

<form></form> what happens with the Screen Reader in question?

Our DOM with Forms can be quite onerous in some cases, where we have form
controls (Input, etc.) sitting un-nested from the form element they work with,
as far as I understand the relevant code.

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

Window-Eyes has the feature, and they're adding capaibility to recognize this
MSAA role.

They know that the <form> elements may not always be placed correctly. The
prev/next form navigation goes to the beginning of each form -- the first
accessible element within that.

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

Checking in nsAccessibilityService.cpp;
/cvsroot/mozilla/accessible/src/base/nsAccessibilityService.cpp,v  <-- 
nsAccessibilityService.cpp
new revision: 1.123; previous revision: 1.122
done