898383 - ARIA role="gridcell" does not turn JAWS FORMS MODE ON

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Kaushik]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.72 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

In Firefox Version 21 & above, when you focus a Grid/Table which contains role="gridcell"  in their TDs, JAWS FORMS MODE is not turned on ( JAWS is on AUTO FORMS Mode). I am using JAWS 14.


Actual results:

JAWS remains in virtual PC cursor mode, and user is not able to navigate the GRID as mentioned in the ARIA spec using arrow keys/


Expected results:

JAWS should have automatically switched to FORMS Mode when encountered role="gridcell"

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Kaushik, you mention that this is in Firefox 21 and above. Does this mean that this worked in Firefox 20?

Comment 2

[Kaushik]

Marco,
I have not tested this in Firefox 21, but it worked on Firefox 17.

Comment 3

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Alex, any idea what might have changed to cause this problem?

Comment 4

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

It's JAWS issue since we follow the ARIA spec (we started to expose editable state on grid and grid cells). So I close this bug (we don't want to fix it if we don't want to break the spec) but I will send a link to the bug to FS contact so they aware of it.

Comment 5

[Kaushik]

Attachment: GridSample.zip

Attached is the zip file contain the source code to repro the issue

Comment 6

[Kaushik]

I have attached the sample code to repro the issue.

Comment 7

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Kaushik, the bug was marked as wontfix, it means we don't have any plans to fix it  (see comment #4). So you don't really need to attach test cases.