782974 - Apple Accessibility API returns incomplete data with current Aurora and Nightly versions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 781090

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Andreas H.]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:16.0) Gecko/16.0 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20120720042008

Steps to reproduce:

Using Apples Accessibility Inspector App (included with XCode) and hovering over the Firefox window.



Actual results:

When using Apples Accessibility Inspector App (included with XCode) and hovering over the Firefox window it only shows very sparse information. (Screenshot: http://d.pr/i/863m/5WBoEfnD )




Expected results:

It should at least give us the AXWindows like it did in previous versions (Screenshot of regular Firefox output: http://d.pr/i/Hqzw/3jIvdEhu )

This is important for many apps, e.g. apps that allow to move other apps windows like BetterSnapTool.

Comment 1

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

I think this is because we only whitelist VoiceOver currently. The performance penalty isn't worth it for other tools.

Hub please reopen if I'm wrong.

Comment 2

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Andi, due to various performance problems, accessibility is currently whitelisted for VoiceOver only. If you want accessibility enabled, you have to change the value of the about:config option accessibility.force_disabled to -1.

Comment 3

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Ah yes good point - I forgot about the force config.

Comment 5

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

I just to be clear, I believe this is regression, convered by bug 781090 as well.

Comment 6

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

Attachment: Have minimum a11y support when we don't have Voice Over. r=

Comment 7

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

Comment on attachment 653001 [details] [diff] [review]
Have minimum a11y support when we don't have Voice Over. r=

Proposed patch: pass the a11y function if we don't have Voice Over.

Also fix a (begnin) issue is [ChildView accessible].

I also would like to propose it to Aurora to get this fixed as it is a regression.

Comment 8

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

sorry, wrong bug...

Comment 9

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

Comment on attachment 653001 [details] [diff] [review]
Have minimum a11y support when we don't have Voice Over. r=

forget about that patch. Will attach to the right one.