NVDA skips text children in Gecko when parent is styled as table

[aleksey_s]

STR:

• Go to  http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/kuzyo/4d2f2f015ec52/
• The site is itself in Ukrainian, I have chosen an English article for your convenience
• Press "2" to navigate to the article header
• navigate down to read the text

Current results:
NVDA skips the article text completely.
Expected results:
NVDA should render the text in the buffer.

Additional info:

• Works in IE
• If there are links in the text, NVDA renders only them, however skipping the text itself
• The text is actually presented by ff, I can navigate to it with the object nav
  • All posts on that site behave the same, making it unusable

Marking as major because the site in question is quite popular in Ukraine, and bug might impact other sites as well.

Hope we'll be able to provide fix for 2011.1.

[jteh]

This really is an authoring error, though we're probably going to have to work with Mozilla to work around it. They have styled something as a table using the CSS style attribute, but the children aren't styled as table cells. Gecko doesn't expose the text interface on tables, so we can't access the text.

The text you are seeing with object navigation is from the text leaf nodes. We never render text leaf nodes and doing so would result in duplicate text everywhere else.

[jteh]

See also #1338.

Typo in comment:1; I meant the CSS display property.

[jteh]

Test case.

[jteh]

Replying to jteh:

We never render text leaf nodes and doing so would result in duplicate text everywhere else.

Sorry; incorrect. This wouldn't result in duplication because text leaf nodes are never part of IA2 text on the parent. However, it could well result in brokenness for editable text fields.

[jteh]

Filed  MozillaBug:634126.

[mdcurran]

Fixed in changeset:main,1373.

[jteh]

He means changeset:main,4633. :)