526315 - autocomplete wins over aria-autocomplete in an input

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

See above URL. Regardless of whether autocomplete="off" is set via JS or in-line, if aria-autocomplete is also present and anything other than "none", Firefox 3.0 through 3.7a1pre will not expose the autocomplete state.

Expected: Since it may be desirable to have the browser's default autocompletion turned off, but do an autocomplete via an ARIA widget, aria-autocomplete should be respected and win over the normal autocomplete attribute when present and not "none".

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Attachment: Simple testcase

1. Test" is an autocomplete as expected.
2. "test2" is an input without autocompletion as expected.
3. "test3" is an input without autocompletion. However, because ARIA should normally override the "autocomplete" attribute, it should be a with autocompletion.
4. "test4" should also be ARIA-overridden, but isn't. It's put in here because the block starting at http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/accessible/src/html/nsHTMLFormControlAccessible.cpp#510 has special checking for if a form is present or not.

For some reason, the specific ARIA states override here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/accessible/src/base/nsAccessible.cpp#1914 does not take effect.

Comment 2

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

1. and 2. are still has expected. 
3. and 4. don't have autocompletion.

Comment 3

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

This has been fixed at some point, don't know when. The test cases now all work as expected. Closing as WFM.