Joanmarie Diggs Reporter
	Description • 9 years ago

JavaScript's alert() results in a dialog/message box/window appearing. Exposing this object as ROLE_ALERT -- the same role used for door hangers and elements with ARIA role alert -- makes it harder for ATs to distinguish these different type of objects.

I would find it helpful if JavaScript alerts were exposed as ROLE_DIALOG. James Teh has said that he has no objection.

	alexander :surkov (:asurkov)
	Comment 1 • 9 years ago

Gijs, you know who could add some ARIA magic into alert dialogs?

	:Gijs (he/him)
	Comment 2 • 9 years ago

They are already role="dialog":

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/prompts/content/tabprompts.xml#26

If that's not how they're presented, then something wonky is happening, but it isn't the fault of the aria markup we use.

	Joanmarie Diggs Reporter
	Comment 3 • 9 years ago

I'm NEEDINFOing myself because from a quick test just now, I'm also seeing ROLE_DIALOG. But yesterday when looking at door hangers and other things, I had a simple javascript alert which was also showing up in the accessible tree as ROLE_ALERT. So it's either wonky and I need to find a reproducible test case, or I was hallucinating in which case I need to close this as INVALID. Since it's a travel day for me today, I don't have time to do either at the moment.