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Status: Fixed
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Closed: Jan 2017
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[DevTools] Accessibility pane: Attempting to inspect root level a11y node leads to annoying weirdness

Project Member Reported by aboxhall@chromium.org, Jan 3 2017

Issue description

When inspecting the root accessibility node, it attempts to inspect the Document node, which isn't visible in the DOM pane, so there is code to instead inspect the first child in the DOM. This causes a kind of "bounce" to happen and also typically inspects a node which is not part of the accessibility tree (such as a comment or doctype node), leading to more confusion.

Instead, if a user attempts to inspect the root accessibility node, it should be a special case which leaves the root document node inspected but not visible in the DOM panel.
 
Here's a video of the behaviour.
Accessibility pane.mp4
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Cc: dgozman@chromium.org
New idea: special-case the root accessibility ("WebArea") node not to sync inspection with the DOM node.
Status: Fixed (was: Untriaged)

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