Bug 253464

Summary: AX: Consider simplifying AccessibilityObject::supportsPressAction, AccessibilityObject::actionElement, and AccessibilityObject::press
Product: WebKit Reporter: Tyler Wilcock <tyler_w>
Component: AccessibilityAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Normal CC: andresg_22, webkit-bug-importer
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: Other   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   

Tyler Wilcock
Reported 2023-03-06 14:10:44 PST
Right now, AccessibilityObject::supportsPressAction and AccessibilityObject::actionElement do complicated and expensive traversals and heuristics to determine if we can expose otherwise inaccessible click handler elements. For example: <span onclick="handleClick(this)" style="...styled to look like a button..."> Open Shopping Cart (inaccessible because there is no role="button") </span> We should consider reworking all of these functions to instead expose (compute accessibilityIsIgnored = false) elements with click handlers that have only one accessible descendant, as this will be simpler than our current implementation. Context: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253337#c9
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Comment 1 2023-03-06 14:11:01 PST
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