338457 - Searchbar accessible name is not descriptive enough

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Run Inspect32
2. Tab to searchbar
3. Accessible name is always "Search"

Hovering the cursor over the search button shows "Search Google" or "Search Yahoo" or whatever.  I expected the textbox's accessible name to include the name of the search engine as well.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Absolutely, this is a regression. I'd prefer not to call regressions minor.

Mark, can you find out who regressed this and get them to fix it?

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Note that there are no longer tool tips on the search bar on the branch, they were removed in bug 311653.

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Note that there are no longer tool tips on the search bar on the branch, they
> were removed in bug 311653.

The accessible name had keyed off of those. The accessible name should be what the tooltip used to be.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This never really worked right, since the tooltip was always broken (i.e. it could be something completely unrelated).

Not going to block on this, since it's at least usable, but would take a safe patch.

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

This works on trunk, and it's not important enough to worry about in the short time frame for Firefox 2.

Comment 6

[Jeremy Baron]

*** Bug 358893 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***