807730 - Caret browsing mode in PDF Viewer

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P1)

Description

[[:Aleksej]]

PDF Viewer currently does not support caret browsing mode.  It probably should be supported there the same way it is for HTML.

Comment 1

[Mihai Morar, (:MihaiMorar)]

I confirm this issue on FF 19b2 on Windows 7 x64.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 (20130116072953)

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information

Comment 3

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information

Comment 4

[Anna Yeddi [:ayeddi]]

This would be a great improvement for keyboard-only users and, when assistive technologies like screen readers would be supporting the caret browsing as well, the PDFjs will be all set too.

Comment 5

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/pdf.js] Implement caret browsing mode (bug 807730) (#17611)

Comment 6

[Calixte Denizet (:calixte)]

Attachment: Bug 807730 - Enable caret browsing mode in pdf.js when it's enabled in Firefox r=#pdfjs-reviewers

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d8c991c8d303
Enable caret browsing mode in pdf.js when it's enabled in Firefox r=pdfjs-reviewers,marco

Comment 8

[Noemi Erli[:noemi_erli]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d8c991c8d303

Comment 9

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: Important accessibility improvement in the PDF viewer for keyboard-only users.
[Affects Firefox for Android]: No.
[Suggested wording]: Caret browsing mode now also works in PDFs.
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]: I wanted to link to SUMO, but I can't find an article about caret browsing. Perhaps we should write one.

Comment 10

[Dianna Smith [:diannaS]]

Added to 124 release notes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/124.0a1/releasenotes/

Here is the link in case you still want to request a SUMO article

Comment 11

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

I actually found an article about caret browsing mode: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/accessibility-features-firefox#w_using-a-keyboard-to-navigate-within-webpages.
I filed bug 1879899 to update the page to mention PDFs too.