Bug 36132 – VO not able to perform a VO-spacebar on facebook links

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Accessibility

[chris fleizach]

There are links on facebook that clearly should except a AXPress, but seem to do nothing when using VO-spacebar.

SOme links include:
• "click here to comment"

[chris fleizach]

Created attachment 50732 [details]
patch

[chris fleizach]

the w3 specs say that  label element should pass its access key action to its corresponding control, but it doesn't say what happens when there is no corresponding control. it seems like it should handle it itself

an alternative to do this is for accessibility code to stop using accessKeyAction for the "press" action, and instead use dispatchSimulatedClick

the downside to that is that there is a bunhc of logic in subclasses using accessKeyAction on whether the element should take focus first or not

[chris fleizach]

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/56019

[chris fleizach]

for some reason test is failing

[chris fleizach]

forgot to commit webkit tools changelog

[chris fleizach]

got mac layout tests working. now to see if i can implement the press action for gtk and windows

[chris fleizach]

looked like the windows press action did not work. i will skip that test and i filed
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36145
waiting to see what happens on GTK