Re: [orca-list] Orca began having trouble to read the contents of number spin buttons in recent releases of Brave and Chromium (forwarded message)

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

While the issue still needs to be fixed in Chromium, it's been
addressed in Orca master. Please test and let me know. Thanks!
--joanie

On Mon, 2021-09-20 at 12:13 +0200, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Confirmed. Something is broken in Chromium when there is a label.
> Plus
> there seems to be an existing additional bug about exposing the
> accessible value via the value interface. These will need to be fixed
> in Chromium. Will see about doing that.
>
> --joanie
>
> On Mon, 2021-09-20 at 11:32 +0200, Didier Spaier via orca-list wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this issue reported by Aiyumi Moriya (not subscribed to this list)
> > is
> > forwarded below:
> >
> > 2. I'm using the Brave web browser, which is based on Chromium.
> > I've
> > been using it for a few months now, and am quite happy with it (I
> > even
> > think it responds better than Firefox most of the time). However,
> > after I upgraded the browser, Orca began having trouble to read the
> > contents of number spin buttons (those 'input type="number"' form
> > input boxes where we can increase or decrease the value with the up
> > and down arrow keys). Sometimes Orca reads the numbers, sometimes
> > not.
> > A few things I noticed are:
> >
> > * When the input field has a "label" HTML element for it, Orca only
> > reads the label, and not the value like it should. When we press
> > either the up or down arrow keys to change the value, Orca keeps
> > repeating the label instead of speaking the value. Flat review also
> > fails to detect the field's content. When we move the caret inside
> > the
> > field with the left and right arrow keys, Orca only says "blank"
> > instead of speaking the characters that are there. I don't know if
> > other HTML elements besides the label also trigger this Orca
> > behavior,
> > but the label certainly does.
> > * When the input field doesn't have a "label" HTML element for it,
> > Orca reads the numbers inside when the field gets focus. When we
> > press
> > either the up or down arrow keys to change the value, Orca
> > announces
> > the new value properly. Flat review also works as it should.
> > However,
> > like in the previous case, when we move the caret inside the field
> > with the left and right arrow keys, Orca only says "blank" instead
> > of
> > speaking the characters inside the field.
> > * These strange problems don't happen in Firefox.
> >
> > I'm not sure if these problems with spin buttons come from Chromium
> > or
> > are specific to the Brave browser, but I first noticed them when I
> > upgraded Brave to version 1.28.103. Now I'm on 1.29.79 (which uses
> > Chromium 93.0.4577.63 according to Brave's changelog) and these
> > problems are still happening. If I downgrade Brave to 1.26.77
> > (which
> > used Chromium 91.0.4472.164), Orca's problems with spin buttons go
> > away, but being stuck with an outdated browser isn't a good idea...
> >
> > Hopefully these problems can be solved from the Orca side.
> >
> > (then in a second message - Didier):
> >
> > 2. I ended up installing the Chromium package by Eric Hameleers.
> > And
> > yes, the numeric spin input box problem happens there too. So, now
> > we
> > know that the problem is in Chromium.
> >
> > (version of the package from Eric was 93.0.4577.63-1 - Didier)
> >
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