Re: JAWS and menu-button

Hi, Daniel. That'd be great if you file a bug
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&component=Disability%20Access%20APIs)
and provide small testcase.
Thank you.
Alexander.


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Daniel Dawson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm the developer of the add-on Saved Password Editor (
> https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/saved-password-editor/ ). I just
> received a report from a user who said that he is unable to access a
> certain drop-down menu. The control in question is a menu-button. Here
> are relevant excerpts of the XUL:
>
> <commandset>
>  <command id="edit_signon"
>           label="&editentry.label;" accesskey="&editentry.accesskey;"
>           oncommand="spEditor.editSignon();" disabled="true"/>
>  <command id="clone_signon"
>           label="&cloneentry.label;"
>           accesskey="&cloneentry.accesskey;"
>           oncommand="spEditor.cloneSignon();" disabled="true"/>
>  <command id="new_signon"
>           label="&newentry.label;" accesskey="&newentry.accesskey;"
>           oncommand="spEditor.newSignon();"/>
> </commandset>
> ...
> <hbox id="SignonViewerButtons">
>  <button id="speMenuBtn" type="menu-button" command="new_signon"
>          icon="add" insertafter="removeAllSignons">
>    <menupopup id="speMenuBtnPopup">
>      ...
>
> He said that when he tabs to the dropmarker, JAWS tells him to press
> Space and then use the up- and down-arrow keys, but that pressing Space
> has no effect. I don't believe I have done anything to negatively
> impact accessibility; the only thing my script does to it is change the
> command and icon of the button. Could I have, in fact, done something
> wrong? Is Gecko doing something to confuse JAWS? Or is there a bug in
> JAWS itself?
>
> Anything you can tell me about this would be appreciated. Thanks.
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