342033 - Accessibility -- use real <table> for summary of changes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 65477

(Bugzilla :: Email Notifications, defect)

Description

[Aaron Leventhal]

As screen reader users become more involved in FOSS, we need to ensure that tools such as Bugzilla are accessible.

The email notifications are not accessible with a screen reader, because of the simulated tables via Ascii. It's a real problem -- a screen reader recently asked me about a bugmail because he had no way to understand it in text to speech.

For example, the following would be accessible to a screen reader user if it was rendered as an HTML table:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Summary|Please add sound events to  |Add sound events to
Firefox.
                   |FireFox.                    |

In this format, the text is read line by line from left to right, and makes no sense at all.

Comment 1

[Olav Vitters]

Having an option for bugmail using HTML was already reported. Perhaps it should do both text/plain + text/html as default, but that is for the other bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65477 ***