424628 - Images in :before and :after are displayed but not accessible

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Emil Ivanov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008032204 Minefield/3.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008032204 Minefield/3.0b5pre

Images in :before and :after tags are displayed, but are not accessible via context menu. They are not listed in Page Info as well.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Unable to view/save/reload image

Comment 1

[Emil Ivanov]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Darren Kalck [:D-Kalck]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008041807 Minefield/3.0pre

I can confirm this.

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

So the context menu and page info code all lives in the Firefox front end.  (It's not clear that it all *should* live there; it might make more sense for some parts of the content querying to be in Gecko.)

If there are also problems with exposing these images via accessibility APIs (i.e., through the APIs used by screen readers, etc.), that should probably be a separate bug on the Accessibility component.

Comment 5

[Emil Ivanov]

Filled bug 549150 for the Page Info thing.

Comment 6

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> So the context menu and page info code all lives in the Firefox front end. 
> (It's not clear that it all *should* live there; it might make more sense for
> some parts of the content querying to be in Gecko.)

We would need to move it in both, because it would break "View Image Info" and similar features which depend on images being detected by Page Info and the context menu in the same way.  Should it only be fixed in context menus then it would affect the other.