Open Bug 1163713 Opened 9 years ago Updated 2 years ago

IAccessible2: Not possible to select to caret when caret is outside of current object

Categories

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Disability Access APIs
Version:
37 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: chris, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

With a document as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <body>
        <div contenteditable="true">Test <a href="#">selection</a></div>
    </body>
</html>

I obtain the two IAccessibleText objects as:
  iaText1 (which has the text "Test \uFFFC"), and
  iaText2 (which has the text "selection")

I want to create a selection from an offset in iaText1 to an offset in iaText2:

iaText2.setCaretOffset(2);
iaText1.setSelection(0, 2, IA2_TEXT_OFFSET_CARET);


Actual results:

Got E_INVALIDARG HRESULT.


Expected results:

I would like this to have set the selection to "st sel"

Some discussion here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/mozilla.dev.accessibility/_6-iZrNtQrg
Blocks: caretsela11y
Component: General → Disability Access APIs
Severity: normal → S3
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