457006 - flash embedded in a page can't be navigated into/out of via keyboard/TAB

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78414

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Patrick H. Lauke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

not sure if this is a problem related to firefox per se or the adobe flash plugin for firefox, but...when a flash movie is embedded in a page (and not just with wmode=transparent), a user navigating via keyboard cannot currently tab into/out of the flash movie itself (even if the movie itself has built-in keyboard tabbing support itself). the only way for a keyboard user to interact is to use a virtual mouse or similar to "click" into the movie first and then "click" out of it again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load a page with a flash movie
2. use TAB to navigate the page
3. attempt to TAB into/out of the movie
Actual Results:  
Doesn't work, the embedded flash is ignored/skipped altogether

Expected Results:  
As with Internet Explorer, for instance, the flash movie itself (if it does have keyboard access enabled) should be in the tab cycle, based on its position in the document/source code. a user should be able to tab into it, tab/interact with the movie itself, and tab back out of it.

Comment 2

[Patrick H. Lauke]

i'd argue that https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414 doesn't cover the first aspect of this bug, which is being able to tab INTO the flash movie.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Bug 78414 covers pretty much every keyboard command, including TAB. I saw you posted a comment there on that, which is fine, but the bug covers all keyboard commands, both into and out of, or at least that is what is meant.