740812 - longdesc accessible action forces new tab/window to open

Status: NEW

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[steve faulkner]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Build ID: 20120312181643

Steps to reproduce:

activated the accessible action associated with longdesc attribute


Actual results:

opened linked page in new tab


Expected results:

open linked page in same tab

Comment 1

[steve faulkner]

always forcing a new tab to open for longdesc URL is not good as one of the use cases is to point to content elsewhere on the same page

Comment 2

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

(In reply to steve faulkner from comment #1)
> always forcing a new tab to open for longdesc URL is not good as one of the
> use cases is to point to content elsewhere on the same page

do you mean "#id" url? shouldn't we just scroll the that id instead of reloading the page?

Comment 3

[steve faulkner]

(In reply to alexander :surkov from comment #2)
> (In reply to steve faulkner from comment #1)
> > always forcing a new tab to open for longdesc URL is not good as one of the
> > use cases is to point to content elsewhere on the same page
> 
> do you mean "#id" url? shouldn't we just scroll the that id instead of
> reloading the page?

yes like a normal in page anchor moves the point of regard to the anchor point with correpsonding id value and tab order continues from there

<a href="#poot">link</a>

...
...
...

<h2 id="poot">heading</h2>

Comment 4

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

so longdesc behavior should be the same as <a href="">, correct?

Comment 5

[Stefan Weiss [:sir_none]]

Hello Steve,

I saw, that this old Bug was solved in another Bug-number.
but just to be sure before we close this Bug-report, can you please confirm, that this is working for you with an actual Version of FF?

thanks for your help.

Comment 6

[steve faulkner]

(In reply to Stefan Weiss [:sir_none] from comment #5)
> Hello Steve,
> 
> I saw, that this old Bug was solved in another Bug-number.
> but just to be sure before we close this Bug-report, can you please confirm,
> that this is working for you with an actual Version of FF?
> 
> thanks for your help.

still opens new tab in firefox 32.02

Comment 7

[Stefan Weiss [:sir_none]]

Hello Steve,

can you give us an example page where you can see the problem?

I have tested it on:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_img_longdesc

[right-click] on the pic and choose "View Description"
on my site it opens in same tab than the picture is in.

Comment 8

[steve faulkner]

(In reply to Stefan Weiss [:sir_none] from comment #7)
> Hello Steve,
> 
> can you give us an example page where you can see the problem?
> 
> I have tested it on:
> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_img_longdesc
> 
> [right-click] on the pic and choose "View Description"
> on my site it opens in same tab than the picture is in.

hi Stefan, 
If you test by activating the default accessible action exposed in Firefox via MSAA [accDefaultAction:showlongdesc] it opens in a new tab. You can test this by using aViewer [http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/aviewer/] and activating the action by pressing/clicking it in the MSAA tree view (tight side panel).