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OS: Windows
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Type: Bug
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UIA Accessibility broken (no tree beneath Chrome Legacy Window pane)

Reported by alexval...@gmail.com, Jul 17 2016

Issue description

Chrome Version       : 49.0.2623
URLs (if applicable) : any
Other browsers tested:
 Chromium 49.0.2618: OK

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Show any web page (example.com is fine)
(2) Verify Global Accessibility Mode is on
(3) Use Inspect.exe or other UIA Accessibility inspection tool to attempt to inspect any element within the page

What is the expected result?
A full accessibility tree is available to UIA insepction

What happens instead?
Only a "Chrome Legacy Window" pane with no content is provided

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

MSAA legacy accessibility also appears non-functional. Bisection testing isolates the change to between 49.0.2618 and 49.0.2623. The issue remains in later versions.
 
Components: UI>Accessibility
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Chrome doesn't enable accessibility unless it detects a screen reader or other advanced use of the accessibility APIs. To enable it manually, you can start Chrome with the --force-renderer-accessibility command-line flag, or visit chrome://accessibility to enable it for one session.

Please see step 2, where I verify that global accessibility mode is on. I used chrome://accessibility, but I have just checked with the command line flag for completeness, and the issue is still reproduced.

Please also note that the behaviour changes between the version numbers I supplied, with otherwise identical configuration.
Status: Available (was: WontFix)
OK, thanks - I'll take a closer look at what happened between those versions. Whatever happened, it doesn't seem to be affecting JAWS, NVDA, or ZoomText, because we've been testing with those and haven't received any reports from other users of breakage in that timeframe.


Thanks. I think those readers work because they can use IAccessible2, which is still working fine. It's only the UIA accessibility that broke.
Labels: NewComponent-Accessibility NewComponent-Accessibility-Compatibility
Components: UI>Accessibility>Compatibility
Components: -UI>Accessibility
Labels: -newcomponent-accessibility-compatibility -newcomponent-accessibility
Labels: triage-dominic
Labels: -triage-dominic a11y-secondary
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Comment 11 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Dec 17

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Status: Untriaged (was: Available)
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