Bugmasters/Bug days/a11y

Accessibility and screen reader bug day

March 12 2013

We will be focusing on screen reader bugs for this bugmaster day. We're inviting screen reader users, people with any sort of web accessibility need, and developers who work on a11y issues. Some of the Mozilla a11y team may join us in filing new bugs for Firefox (and Thunderbird), triaging, and trying to reproduce existing bugs. Since Bugzilla itself, and this wiki, may present problems for screen reader users, we can use the IRC channel to coordinate information and action.

Communication

• Join us in the #a11y channel on irc:irc.mozilla.org

What to do

• Chat with us about filing new bugs
• File bugs!
• Check existing bugs from the list below, and try to reproduce them
• Add new information to existing bugs.

Filing new bugs

If you would like to file bugs you will need to have a bugzilla.mozilla.org account. If you aren't sure how to best describe the bug, join us in the irc channel to chat about it.

• Make a bugzilla account.
• Follow through with the account email.
• Log in to bugzilla.mozilla.org.
• Enter a new bug for Firefox, Firefox for Android, or Thunderbird.
• For other Mozilla product bugs, use the main enter bug page or ask on IRC for a direct link.

Improving bugs to make them more useful

To create a good bug report, or improve an existing one, please include as much detail as you can about the issue. Here are some possible details to include.

• Detailed steps to reproduce the bug.
• Hardware and software you're using
• Urls that are affected.
• Does the bug happen in other browsers?
• Can you attach error logs or crash reports?

List of known screen reader bugs

If you can contribute any information about these bugs, please comment in Bugzilla or let us know in IRC.

• Bug 843657: Verify that the Plugin Hang UI is working with screen readers
• Bug 836746: Click To Play HTML bit not recognized by all screen readers
• Bug 812187: Screen readers say "blank" on first word of line when navigating by word
• Bug 809854: Announce the open file in focus action to screen readers
• Bug 757730: Screen reader reads only setting Label, not checkbox status
• Bug 693644: (e10s) Despite fix for bug 677883, screen readers relying on iSimpleDOM fail to create virtual documents from the second tab onwards
• Bug 654908: Improve keyboard and screen reader accessibility of tbpl
• Bug 583087: Bugzilla should use headings for different sections for screen readers
• Bug 552964: Changing focus to the new tabs toolbar results in very verbose speech output with screen readers.
• Bug 411198: Message navigation keys conflict with screen reader "quick navigation" keys
• Bug 342440: Left/right arrows behave asymmetrically, confusing users and screen readers
• Bug 305206: Make Error Console work better with screen readers
• Bug 304801: static text content in alert dialog can't be read by screen reader

Meta bugs

Bugs that collect many bug reports into one discussion.

• Bug 340809: (textattra11y) [meta] Text formatting not exposed to screen readers, inaccessible
• Bug 241023: (caretnav) Caret navigation w/ keyboard [meta bug] (tracking Caret Browsing bugs)
• Bugzilla search for all a11y meta bugs: There are over 50 other meta bugs that are accessibility related. This list is useful for finding duplicates, or bugs that already exist on a newly reported issue.

Participants

• Liz Henry IRC:lizzard Email: lizzard@mozilla.com

Results

This is for notes on the bug day and reports on what we accomplished.