312747 - Include line break info for text using white-space: pre

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Aaron Leventhal]

Normally we clean out \r, \n and \t characters in the accessible names of
objects, because those are only indication of the formatting of the markup.

However, in the case of <pre> and other text formatted using white-space: pre
the line break info is important.

Oftentimes tabular information is rendered inaccessible because we remove
linebreak info. For example: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/al/hourly.html

To reproduce:
1. Go to above URL
2. Launch MSAA Inspect and position arrow of text
3. Notice that the accessible name is all on 1 line

What should happen:
Line breaks should be rendered in MSAA Inspect window

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Attachment: If text has computed style of white-space: pre, then don't expose

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Comment on attachment 199824 [details] [diff] [review]
If text has computed style of white-space: pre, then don't expose

This has been tested by the screen reader vendors in a special build created
for them.

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

Verified by Doug Geoffray from GW Micro.

Comment 4

[Dan Kinnunen]

Verified that this has been fixed in dev build 10/19/05 build from aaron.

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

*** Bug 311299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***