471441 - Accessibility cannot grab F11 key

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Samuel B. Quiring]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1

The at-spi interface claims that an accessible program can grab any key.  I cannot find any Firefox documentation to the contrary.  But if Firefox has the focus, the F11 key never gets to my accessibility application.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Write an accessibility application that registers a listener for F11
2.  Run that application
3.  Run Firefox
4.  press F11
5.  Note that Firefox went full screen and your app never received F11
Actual Results:  
Firefix grabs the F11 and goes full screen

Expected Results:  
My accessible app should get F11 and have the option of passing it on to Firefox or not.  That is how at-spi is documented.

I'm ok with Firefox saying "F11 is for going full screen -- even accessibility can not stop this."  But there is no such doc so I wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out what was wrong with my code.

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Samuel:
Does this problem still happen for you in a recent Firefox version, or can this be closed as obsolete nowadays?
If it still happens: Which Firefox version do you use, and which operating system and version?
Any chance to provide a testcase?