319981 - Accessibility incorrectly reports visible items as invisible

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Tim Hill]

Firefox 1.5 is reporting some items as "invisible" in Active Accessibility when they should probably be visible.  It is also reporting "visible" children within "invisible" parents, which doesn't seem correct.  These issues didn't occur in Firefox 1.0.

Example pages (viewed using Accessibility Explorer):

http://www.yahoo.com
The icon links at the top (Finance, Music, Shopping, etc.) and the Search Category tabs/links are represented as “Invisible” by Active Accessibility, but they are clearly visible to the user.

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.html
The navigation links on the right side of the page are represented to Active Accessibility as:
[ list – visible ]
   [ list item – invisible ]
      [ link – visible ] Downloading and Installing
   [ list item – invisible ]
      [ link – visible ] System requirements
   ...

http://www.technorati.com/pop/news/
Here the HTML <ol> list on the right column is represented as:
[ list – invisible ]
  [ list item – visible ]
    [ link – visible ]
  [ list item – visible ]
    [ link – visible ]

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Problem in ATK as well.

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

I believe this was fixed by very recent fixes for STATE_INVISIBLE.