301406 - XUL multiline textbox not accessible

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Aaron Leventhal]

The accessibles gets created but an error is returned when attempting to get the
state, which confuses assistive technologies.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Attachment: Allow inputField to be any kind of HTML element, so that a textarea can be returned

Comment 2

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Comment on attachment 189865 [details] [diff] [review]
Allow inputField to be any kind of HTML element, so that a textarea can be returned

Possibly consider making inputField an nsIDOMNode so you can call
textBox->GetInputField getter_AddRefs(mTextNode));

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

Checking in accessible/src/xul/nsXULFormControlAccessible.cpp;
/cvsroot/mozilla/accessible/src/xul/nsXULFormControlAccessible.cpp,v  <-- 
nsXULFormControlAccessible.cpp
new revision: 1.51; previous revision: 1.50
done
Checking in accessible/src/atk/nsXULFormControlAccessibleWrap.cpp;
/cvsroot/mozilla/accessible/src/atk/nsXULFormControlAccessibleWrap.cpp,v  <-- 
nsXULFormControlAccessibleWrap.cpp
new revision: 1.5; previous revision: 1.4
done
Checking in dom/public/idl/xul/nsIDOMXULTextboxElement.idl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/dom/public/idl/xul/nsIDOMXULTextboxElement.idl,v  <-- 
nsIDOMXULTextboxElement.idl
new revision: 1.4; previous revision: 1.3
done

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

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