646377 - Focus event fired for accessible in previously active tab after opening a new tab from menu

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Str:
1. Open a document in one tab.
2. Press alt+f to access the File menu, then select New Tab.
Expected: A focus event should be fired on the Location bar.
Actual: A focus event is (correctly) fired on the Location Bar. However, a focus event is then incorrectly fired in the previously active tab (step 1), thus overriding the correct focus.

This occurs whenever a new tab is opened using a menu; e.g. History -> Recently Closed Tabs or Tools -> Add-ons Manager. It does not occur when opening new tabs using keyboard shortcuts (and I assume clicking buttons); e.g. control+t.

This bug means that focus appears to be in the previous document when screen reader users open a new tab from a menu. Screen reader users have to move the focus in some way to restore focus to the correct tab, which is annoying at best and extremely confusing at worst.

This does not occur in Firefox 3.6.

Comment 1

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Jamie, I can't see it on trunk. Can you?

Comment 2

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

I can still reproduce this 100% using trunk (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110917 Firefox/9.0a1).

Comment 3

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

still can't reproduce, anyway, let's try it again after bug 673958 is fixed

Comment 4

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

I verified that this is fixed in the last try build for bug 673958.

Comment 5

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

fixed by bug 673958

Comment 6

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Verified fixed in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20110929 Firefox/10.0a1