Bug#770530: accessibility: impossible to change the default search engine without mouse

[Mike Hommey]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 03:42:56AM +0100, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 31.2.0esr-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> I want to add search.kujiu.org in my ;ist of search engine, in particular to set
> it by default when I enter keywords on the search and address bars.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> If I use mouse (click, list, adding, etc), it works.
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> But I am unable to do the same with the keyboard. And some people cannot use
> the mouse. Blind people for example use only a flat review, unable to identify
> the arrow to change these settings.
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> The search engine stuff should be customisab;e via about:config (with better
> documentation for this), or through preferences meou. We also could do an item
> to set up this in the contextual menu which can be opened while t:e focus
> is in the search bar. Finally, ?e could create a keyboard binding to set this.
> It's a big improvement.

Firefox/Iceweasel 34 will actually have something like that. And 31.3
should fix accessibility, which I think should make a11y tools see more
of the UI.

Mike