290169 - In edit > preferences > advanced tab right pane steals focus.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[chandrashekhar. korlahalli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.7 for Java Desk  top system.

In edit > preferences > advances > proxy tab right pane steels focus . Thus 
screen reader  does not read proxy tab any time while navigating from top to 
bottom.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install gnome 2.6 on linux ( suse ) version 9.
2.Start gnopernicus, requires logout & loginn. Re-start gnopernicus & wait till 
you hear the  speech.
3. start mozilla web browser, from main menu.
4. select edit > preferences > advance >  proxy  tab. It opens proxy setup 
winsow  on right pane.
Actual Results:  
Press tab key to navigate from top. When focus moves on advance tab, 
immediately focus moves on to right pane  bottom label. Thus screen reader 
reads it as "jdk 1.5." etc. Blind  / low visin user thinks that there i no " 
proxy tab ". or he will be keep searching.

Expected Results:  
When focus moves on to " proxy tab " focus  should stay on on proxy tab itself.
Thus screen reader should read jthe tab.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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