849275 - aria support need enhance for ajax web pages

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[cometta]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307023931

Steps to reproduce:

for ajax websites, i tested, firefox using "tab",  for tabindex=0 ,   the sequence of tab selected is not so consistence and user friendly compared to Chrome.   I suggest imporve on aria feature

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

tabindex is not an ARIA feature. Also, Firefox on the Mac respects a setting in System Preferences, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts where tab can move either to only text fields or any focusable element. I suggest you change that preference to "all" and report back here if you see any different results.

Comment 2

[cometta]

yup. after follow your instruction. yup. the tabindex work fine.  can auto make firefox, enable this feature for all elements rather than depending on setting in system preferences -keyword ? just like in chrome. I think is more user friendly that way.

Comment 3

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

The fact that Firefox respects this setting in OS X is actually by design and goes with the principle of operating system integration. If a user changes this in System Preferences and expects it to work like this in all applications, Firefox should be no exception.