[tor-bugs] #27503 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Disabling accessibility on Windows breaks screen readers

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#27503: Disabling accessibility on Windows breaks screen readers
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:  gk
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  assigned
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-8.0-issues, tbb-regression,      |  Actual Points:
  TorBrowserTeam201811, GeorgKoppen201811        |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by gk):

 * status:  needs_information => assigned
 * keywords:  tbb-8.0-issues, tbb-regression =>
     tbb-8.0-issues, tbb-regression, TorBrowserTeam201811,
     GeorgKoppen201811
 * owner:  tbb-team => gk


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:13 onionsoup]:
 > Thank you for working on this! Tor button and browser controls are now
 accessible again. However, it appears that web content is not being
 exposed to the screen reader, so where the website should be rendered,
 there's just something called "unknown". I'm not sure what the cause of
 that is, but it is across all sites. I tested with about:tor, youtube and
 wikipedia. I tested with Windows 7 using NVDA as a screen reader. To
 summarise, screen reader users cannot interact with websites, but
 everything that is not web content works.

 Thanks for the feedback. I guess the big question is "Is that caused by a
 missing accessibility patch OR by some other patches we ship"? I guess I
 compile a vanilla Firefox with the accessibility patches and we'll find
 out...

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