862238 - See if Accessibility can be enabled on Mac for Thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Currently we disable Accessibility on Mac for Thunderbird. Previously it was not available in the core platform, it is now available for Thunderbird, so it would be good to consider enabling it.

At the moment, the accessibility MozMill test that we have currently fails on Mac if accessbility is enabled (it passes on the other platforms):

SUMMARY-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test-message-header.js | test-message-header.js::test_a11y_attrs
  EXCEPTION: headerAccessible.name for Subject was 'null'; expected 'Subject: This is a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, long subject.'
    at: test-message-header.js line 991
       verify_header_a11y test-message-header.js 991
       test_a11y_attrs test-message-header.js 1016
       Runner.prototype.wrapper frame.js 582
       Runner.prototype._runTestModule frame.js 652
       Runner.prototype.runTestModule frame.js 698
       Runner.prototype.runTestDirectory frame.js 522
       runTestDirectory frame.js 704
       Bridge.prototype._execFunction server.js 179
       Bridge.prototype.execFunction server.js 183

Comment 1

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

Can you point me at the test_a11y_attrs source?

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to David Bolter [:davidb] from comment #1)
> Can you point me at the test_a11y_attrs source?

http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/search?string=test_a11y_attrs

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Now that bug 967432 is fixed, this appears to no longer be an issue:

https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Thunderbird-Try&rev=4167369af17f&showall=1

(the test oranges are due to another bug)

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Attachment: Enable Accessibility on Mac

Not sure of the actual effects of this bug, but I'm assuming that it'll enable some features for accessibility readers and the like, and hopefully make us consistent with Firefox, and less divergence from Gecko.

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/087b6a2657cb