Open Bug 1629965 Opened 5 years ago Updated 1 year ago

The two "new tab" buttons have different accessible label

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P3)

77 Branch
defect

Tracking

()

Accessibility Severity s4

People

(Reporter: cwendling, Unassigned, Mentored, NeedInfo)

References

Details

(Keywords: access)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

Get the accessible name of the 2 "New tab" buttons (the one when there are "few" tabs, and the one when there are "many" tabs)

Actual results:

They have a different label. The "few" tabs one states "Open a new tab (Ctrl+T)", and the "many" tabs one states "New tab".

Expected results:

Both buttons which provide the exact same feature and apparently are only different buttons for internal reasons should have the same label to improve consistency and avoid confusion. This affects users of assistive technologies like screen readers.

See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628360#c14

Keywords: access
Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser
Whiteboard: [access-p3]

Resetting severity to default of --.

Updating the Accessibility Team's impact assessment to conform with the new triage guidelines. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/Triage for descriptions of these whiteboard flags.

Whiteboard: [access-p3] → [access-s4]

Because this bug's Severity has not been changed from the default since it was filed, and it's Priority is P3 (Backlog,) indicating it has been triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to S3 (normal.)

Severity: normal → S3
Accessibility Severity: --- → s4
Whiteboard: [access-s4]

:cmkm, Can you confirm with the l10n folks what the best plan is to resolve this and write it up for a potential good-first-bug contributor?

Mentor: cmeador
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Flags: needinfo?(cmeador)
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