891506 - Allow icons to be activated with screen reader

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::System::Lockscreen, defect)

Description

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

This is a regression from bug #889466.

Comment 1

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Attachment: Fix support for activating the homescreen icons in the screen reader.

Comment 2

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/pull/10870

Comment 3

[Kevin Grandon :kgrandon]

Hi Eitan,

I think we may have had a discussion about this in the past, but can't remember. Are touch events not supported by the screen reader? If not, is it on the roadmap to add to the screen reader?

The reason I ask is it feels like we're going to be duplicating a lot of code if we can't support touch events.

Comment 4

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

(In reply to Kevin Grandon :kgrandon from comment #3)
> Hi Eitan,
> 
> I think we may have had a discussion about this in the past, but can't
> remember. Are touch events not supported by the screen reader? If not, is it
> on the roadmap to add to the screen reader?
> 
> The reason I ask is it feels like we're going to be duplicating a lot of
> code if we can't support touch events.

Yeah, we covered that somewhere. But you are right, rightly or wrongly apps are begining to solely use touch, and we need to support that better. I'll comment here if we figure out another solution.

Comment 5

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

The usage of touch events for activation is too much for us to fix. We will have to simply synthesize touch and mouse events on these elements.