646442 - WE does not see any text in text fields, WE and JAWS can't explore Firefox window with mouse emulation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

These are very closely related, so covering them both here.
The assumption is that it is either the way we draw things on the screen now, even with Direct2D turned off, or we need the more sophisticated window emulation introduced for HAL/SuperNova in bug 612872 to be expanded for all ATs.

Let's try the second first and see if that helps.

Comment 1

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

try server build http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tryserver-builds/[e-mail]-bd1388cac411

Comment 2

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Attachment: marcoz idea

Comment 3

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

I pushed new try server build - http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/try-builds/[e-mail]-6f3929f4ab9e

Marco, ping.

Comment 4

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Marco, is it still a problem? Should I start new try server build?

Comment 5

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Alex, if you could, yes, that would be great!

Comment 6

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

(In reply to Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ) from comment #5)
> Alex, if you could, yes, that would be great!

build will be available here http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/try-builds/[e-mail]-3397c3eff44a

Comment 7

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Marco, ping?

Comment 8

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

No, this does not solve the problem. Window-Eyes is still not able to see any text in textboxes with the try-server build.

Comment 9

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

However, I was just notified by Window-Eyes of an upgrade to 7.5.2. This is a free upgrade to 7.5 users that solves this problem even for regular nightly builds. Suggest to close this one WFM and tell users to upgrade to the latest version of Window-Eyes. They usually are willing to upgrade anyway I'm told, so I think this is OK to do.

Comment 10

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

What about JAWS?

Comment 11

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

JAWS had been using IA2 all along since JAWS 10 and therefore don't suffer from this issue.

Comment 12

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

wontfix per comment #9 and comment #11

Comment 13

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Out of curiosity, can JAWS/WE mouse emulation read the Firefox window now? My understanding is that this isn't related to IA2 for those screen readers.