354121 - getFocusedChild() doesn't really (always) get a child

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Håkan Waara]

getFocusedChild() sounds like it would give a child that is focused, and null if none of its children are focused. 

However, it just asks the accessibility service to return whichever accessible that is focused (globally). This can be misleading.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Actually for tree it returns the focused descendant.

We can change it so that the returned accessible is set to null if it's not a decsendant, and change the name to getFocousedDescendant.

Comment 2

[Håkan Waara]

Aaron, could getFocusedDescendant use the caret accessible to quickly fetch the focused element (and then see if it's a descendant)?

Comment 3

[Håkan Waara]

Actually, I think getFocusedElement() would be enough for my uses. This could live on nsIAccessibleDocument

If that's what getFocusedChild() does anyway, we could just move it to the root accessible, and the implementation would make sense.

Comment 4

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.

Comment 5

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

I don't think this is a bug anymore.

Comment 6

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

I don't think this is a bug anymore.

Comment 7

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

(In reply to David Bolter [:davidb] from comment #6)
> I don't think this is a bug anymore.

FocusedChild() returns a child always for generic accessible, document accessible may return everything but it appears it's by design. Agree on the bug closing but we should provide a reason why the bug is not valid anymore.