77647 - [meta] Active Accessibility: Event support in Gecko

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Peter Trudelle]

Task 	               Days  Priority	Description

Name Change Event	1.5	P1	When the MSAA name of a widget changes, a Windows message needs to be
sent that contains the information needed for the screen reader to find out what
happened.  Different things may need to be done for some special widgets.

State Change Event	1.5	P1	When the MSAA state of a widget changes, a Windows message needs to be
sent that contains the information needed for the screen reader to find out what
happened. Add DOM listeners in root to listen for events. Make sure events are
there, add mutation events as needed.

Valuechange Event	0.5	P1	When the MSAA value associated with a widget changes, a Window messsage
is used to notify the screen reader of the event.

Checked Event	0.5	P1	When the MSAA checked value associated with a widget changes, a Window
messsage is used to notify the screen reader of the event.

Scrollingstart Event	1?	P2	?
Scrollingend Event	1?	P2	?

Comment 1

[John Gaunt (redfive)]

Turning this into a meta bug for tracking event support.

Current status is that the only event work needed is a popup event for comboboxes.

Comment 2

[John Gaunt (redfive)]

event support completed currently. May change if we get more info from software
vendors, but we'll burn that bridge when we get to it.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527381