908358 - Save As dialog not completely read by screen reader (JAWS)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Ben Gold]

Static text on the Save As dialog is not read by JAWS.

Comment 1

[Ben Gold]

Steps to reproduce:

1)  Launch screen reader (JAWS 14)
2)  Launch Firefox
3)  Change the preference on the "General" tab, in the Downloads section, to "Always ask me where to save files"
4)  Navigate to a web page to download a file
5)  Click on the link/button/action to download the file

Problem:
The static text at the top of the dialog is not read by the screen reader.  The screen reader reads the title of the file then reads, "What should Firefox do with this file?".  It does not read, "You have chosen to open:", the name of the file, "which is: <file type>", and "from: <url>".

Comment 2

[Ben Gold]

Attachment: ff_download_dialog.png

Example File Save As dialog

Comment 3

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Marco, can you confirm this?

Comment 4

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

this should be fixed by a recent round of XUL markup improvements that are in Firefox 29 Aurora. Ben, can you re-test this please?

Comment 5

[Ben Gold]

I have to download FF 29 Aurora, if I get a chance to do that I'll re-test.

Comment 6

[Ben Gold]

This dialog still does not appear to be accessible.  JAWS still skips the entire top section when opening the dialog (where the dialog states, "You have chosen to open", the file name, what type of file it is, and where it was downloaded from).  The first thing JAWS reads for me is the title of the dialog, "Opening <filename>", then, "What should Aurora do with this file?".  If I wasn't sighted, I would have never known that I missed content in the first place.

If I tab multiple times I can eventually wrap around to the read-only text that is the file type, but even then I can never seem to get to the "from: " field.

Comment 7

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

I've got more feedback:

"There are a number of label elements below the dialog but they are not related to the dialog.
If you use the jaws keystroke (insert+b) JAWS will read the static text in the dialog.
So the question is, should there be a labelledby relation from the dialog to the labels?
I don't really know.
Otherwise, JAWS is working as designed, the names of ancestors of the focused elements are read when focus moves into the dialog."

Comment 8

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

This is working now. All of the dialog text (including the bits reported as missing here) are exposed in the dialog's accDescription. I tested with JAWS 2019 and all of the text was read.