Bug 145973 – AX: Expose whether the input is for a url, tel or email.

• Component: Accessibility
• Status: NEW

[Steve Faulkner]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. go to http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/form-test.html
2. check the email/url/tel etc inputs
3. input type not exposed in AX

What is the expected output? 
see Mozilla implementation bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924896 and chrome bug https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=323161

Note: search input has a subrole of serach in webkit, others do not.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/21381454>

[Zoë Bijl]

type="slider" does have an accessibilityRole of AXSlider (opposed to AXTextArea for most others) but its accessibilitySubrole is still <nil>.

[Zoë Bijl]

Created attachment 254874 [details]
Screenshot of Accessibility Inspector showing the tree for an <input type="slider" /> element

[Steve Faulkner]

(In reply to comment #2)
> type="slider" does have an accessibilityRole of AXSlider (opposed to
> AXTextArea for most others) but its accessibilitySubrole is still <nil>.

this bug/feature request is only for 
http://thepaciellogroup.github.io/AT-browser-tests/test-files/input-tel.html
http://thepaciellogroup.github.io/AT-browser-tests/test-files/input-email.html
http://thepaciellogroup.github.io/AT-browser-tests/test-files/input-url.html

[Zoë Bijl]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > type="slider" does have an accessibilityRole of AXSlider (opposed to
> > AXTextArea for most others) but its accessibilitySubrole is still <nil>.
> 
> this bug/feature request is only for 
> http://thepaciellogroup.github.io/AT-browser-tests/test-files/input-tel.html
> http://thepaciellogroup.github.io/AT-browser-tests/test-files/input-email.
> html
> http://thepaciellogroup.github.io/AT-browser-tests/test-files/input-url.html

Excuse me, I realized that on my way back home, thank you for the clarification. Shouldn't types like month, week and day be included in this report, too?