686301 - Mozilla Firefox 4+ issue with JAWS. FF not reporting tooltip text/alert for dijit.form.ValidationTextBox

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Moe Kraft]

Attachment: testtooltip.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.22) Gecko/20110902 (CK-IBM) Firefox/3.6.22
Build ID: 20110902133716

Steps to reproduce:

In FF 3.6, JAWS 12 does report the alert message that pops when the focus is placed in the text edit field created with dijit.Form.ValidationTextBox that the field is required. It is also reported when this form is opened in IE.

In Firefox 4 and 5, this alert message is not read by JAWS. 
I did a little further investigation using Inspect and AccProbe. When running in FF 3.6 and IE, I can hover over the alert popup or its text and MSAA information is returned for both. If I do the same running in FF 5, I get MSAA information on the document itself and never any information on the alert and its text. I do not see the alert and its text as children of the document either. 

I suspect this is an issue with Firefox not returning the appropriate child  information when asked by the AT.


Actual results:

The alert message of the dijit.form.ValidationTextBox was not read by JAWS 12 in Firefox 4 and 5. 


Expected results:

The alert message should be read by JAWS 12 in Firefox 4 and later. Firefox should return the appropriate accessibility information for the alert message returned from a dijit.Form.ValidationTextBox.

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

This test case still works and still reproduces the bug even with JAWS 2020.2006.12 and Firefox Nightly 81.