345834 - DHTML role "rowheader" works only with TH tag

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Georgios]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

The DHTML role "rowheader" is specified to work with any HTML tag. But only when applied to a TH Jaws will announce the text "rowheader". In any other case it will announce "table cell".
This can be reproduced with the example at http://www.mozilla.org/access/dhtml/spreadsheet.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.mozilla.org/access/dhtml/spreadsheet.
2. View the XHTML source of the spreadsheet example. 
3. Observe that the role "rowheader" has been applied to a TD.
4. Start Jaws and focus the appropriate cell.
5. The announcement is "table cell". It should be "rowheader".

Actual Results:  
Speachoutput is "table cell"

Expected Results:  
Speachoutput should be "row header"

Comment 1

[Georgios]

Attachment: rowheader

here you test the role "rowherader" within a TD and a TH

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 345820 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

I see this only in Firefox 2 because of the more general bug 342979.

What's being seen here only occurs when the mime type isn't XHTML and the doc is actually being parsed as HTML. For local copies the trick is to use an .xhtml file extension before loading it in Firefox.