[Bug 209509]

[Mounir]

(In reply to neil at parkwaycc.co.uk from comment #80)
> (In reply to alexander surkov from comment #78)
> > Mounir, I assume you use @value attribute on that xul:label. Is it possible
> > to switch to text node instead?
> He can't *switch* to text node because he requires the crop behaviour, but I
> believe the value attribute takes priority over the text node so that if he
> provides both then it will show cropped text but obviously I don't know
> whether the accessibility code will see the text node. (Is it possible to
> query the accessible tree in DOM Inspector to find out?)

I tried that and that unfortunately doesn't work :(

(In reply to alexander :surkov from comment #78)
> (In reply to James Teh [:Jamie] from comment #77)
> > (In reply to alexander :surkov from comment #73)
> > > Jamie, I think we need your help. Can you take a look please at try build:
> > > and say how we should expose the input at type="file" to AT to make it working
> > > with NVDA?
> > The problem is that XUL labels expose the IAccessibleText interface, but the
> > text is empty (IAccessibleText::nCharacters returns 0). If the label text is
> > exposed via IAccessibleText, it should work correctly.
> 
> If we would expose IAccessibleText correctly then would it fix a problem?
> 
> Mounir, I assume you use @value attribute on that xul:label. Is it possible
> to switch to text node instead?

I'm using xul:label because there is the crop feature.

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  <input type=file> does not accept textual input

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