347229 - Accessibility issues on Options-Security dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 344575

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Wayne DeAngelo]

Test environment:
   Windows XP, Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) build 20060802, Inspect Objects
   Optional: screen reader (JAWS 7.1 or Window-Eyes 5.5M (latest beta))

Description: 
Accessibility issues found in the Show Cookies dialog, found on the "Privacy" tab of the Tools-Options dialog.
1. Missing MSAA Name property for 2 combo boxes
2. Screen reader does not read sentences containing multiple user interface elements.

Steps to recreate:
1. Open Tools-Options dialog (press Alt+T, then "O")
2. Select the "Security" page  (Press Tab or Shift+Tab until focus is on one of the icons at the top of the page, then press Right Arrow or Left Arrow until "Security" is selected.)
3. Press Tab to move focus to the "Use a list of suspected forgeries provided by" radio button.  (Use Up and Down Arrow to select the radio button, if needed.)
4. Press Tab to focus on combo box to the right of the "use a list of suspected forgeries" radio button.
5. Note the Inspect Objects output:  MSAA Name = "" (null).  It should be set to a meaningful, non-null description.  (Some screen readers, like JAWS, use this to tell the user what element has focus.)
6. Note that JAWS does not read the entire sentence, as presented visually on the screen.   (The contents of the combo box are intended to complete the sentence that starts "Use a list of suspected forgeries provided by".)

7. Select the "Ask" radio button directly below the "use a list" button.
8. Press Tab to focus on the combo box to the right of the word "Ask".
9. Note the Inspect Objects output:  MSAA Name = "" (null).  Again, it should contain a meaningful description.
10.  If using a screen reader, note that neither JAWS or Window-Eyes reads the entire sentence as viewed by a sighted user.  The sighted user sees "Ask Google to check every site I visit".  JAWS reads only the work "Ask" or "Google", depending on which has focus.  Window-Eyes is a little better, reading either "Ask" or "Ask Google", depending on if the radio button or the combo box has focus.  NOTE that neither screen reader ever reads the end of the sentence "to check every site I visit".

Note: Visual constructions like this (radio button, followed by another UI element like a input field or combo box), followed by more text are not very easy to understand when using a screen reader, since the screen reader often reads only one element at a time, and not the entire line, as a sighted user would naturally do.

Expected results:
1. The MSAA Name property should be set for all User Interface elements.
2. Both the "Use a list..." and the "Ask..." radio button options should be reworded so as not to depend on a visual sentence structure containing multiple UI elements.  (However, a possible solution is to provide a meaningful MSAA Name for each combo box, that describes the meaning of the entire sentence.)

Comment 1

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 344575 ***

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527381