473355 - ROLE_TOGGLEBUTTON not being exposed correctly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Aaron Leventhal]

In this example:
http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/button/button1.php

The buttons are sometimes being exposed as ROLE_BUTTON instead of TOGGLE_BUTTON. Note, this is an IA2 role, so don't look at it with MSAA. The MSAA role is correct if it is ROLE_PUSHBUTTON.

All the buttons here use aria-pressed and should be toggle buttons.

This may be caused by bug 472143.

Comment 1

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Right, I see some of the buttons are programmatically given the aria-pressed attribute

Comment 2

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

The consensus in the UAI TF is that roles should never change. So invalidating (bug 472143) seems the way to go here.

Comment 3

[Trevor Saunders (:tbsaunde)]

When I look at the test page over at-spi the buttons seem to have ROLE_TOGGLE_BUTTOn, should I test this differently? because I believe this is now worksforme

Comment 4

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> When I look at the test page over at-spi the buttons seem to have
> ROLE_TOGGLE_BUTTOn, should I test this differently? 

the key word is "sometimes" from bug description but it's quite possible worksforme now (if bug 472143 was a root problem then now I guess we create accessible after they set aria-pressed on buttons).

Marco, could you check this too?

Comment 5

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

I cannot repro this at all any more with current nightly builds of FF4. I loaded the page 10 times, refreshed and tried several other things, the buttons always appear as toggle buttons. I'd say WFM

Comment 6

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

ok, worksforme per comment #3 and comment #5. Let's keep bug 472143 for possible tree updates problems.