Bug 127353

Summary: AX: Mac: Expose the visible text of a password field to AX
Product: WebKit Reporter: chris fleizach <cfleizach>
Component: AccessibilityAssignee: chris fleizach <cfleizach>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: aboxhall, apinheiro, commit-queue, dmazzoni, jcraig, jdiggs, mario, samuel_white, webkit-bug-importer
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description chris fleizach 2014-01-21 09:50:22 PST
The Mac platform is now exposing the rendered visible text of password fields through accessibility. VoiceOver is able to make use of that to provide a better user experience.

<rdar://problem/15344998>
Comment 1 chris fleizach 2014-01-21 09:57:21 PST
Created attachment 221756 [details]
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Comment 2 Brent Fulgham 2014-01-21 12:23:41 PST
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r=me
Comment 3 chris fleizach 2014-01-21 12:24:17 PST
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Thanks!
Comment 4 WebKit Commit Bot 2014-01-21 12:52:22 PST
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Clearing flags on attachment: 221756

Committed r162466: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/162466>
Comment 5 WebKit Commit Bot 2014-01-21 12:52:23 PST
All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.
Comment 6 Alexey Proskuryakov 2014-01-21 15:58:03 PST
accessibility/password-field-value.html is failing on all bots: <http://webkit-test-results.appspot.com/dashboards/flakiness_dashboard.html#showAllRuns=true&tests=accessibility%2Fpassword-field-value.html>

+CONSOLE MESSAGE: line 15: TypeError: HTMLParagraphElement is not a function (evaluating 'description("This tests that the AX exposed value of a password field is the rendered text.")')
Comment 7 Alexey Proskuryakov 2014-01-21 16:02:32 PST
Hopefully fixed in <http://trac.webkit.org/r162482>.
Comment 8 chris fleizach 2014-01-21 16:06:28 PST
Thanks for looking into that!