number of words instead of number of list items announced when <li> set to inline or inline-block used

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Reported by zomigi on 2012-03-06 21:53

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a list (
   element) in an HTML page
   • Set the CSS of the
   • elements to display:inline or display:inline-block
   • Have NVDA read the list in the web page

Expected results:

NVDA announces number of list items (

elements) when entering the list.

Actual results:

NVDA announces number of words within all the list items when entering the list. For instance, if the list contains 4 items and each have 2 words in them, NVDA will say the list contains 8 items, not 4.
Blocked by NVDA counts whitespace between inline <li> elements when calculating list length #3546
Blocking Lists with display inline or inline-block read all at once and incorrect number of items reported #3672

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Attachment NVDA-bug.html added by zomigi on 2012-03-06 21:55
Description:
contains same list 3 times, each with different CSS display value, announced 2 different ways

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Comment 1 by jteh on 2012-03-07 02:54
What browser(s) did you test this with?

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Comment 2 by zomigi on 2012-03-07 22:02
The bug occurs in Firefox 10.0.2. It doesn't occur in IE 8. Those are the only two browsers I checked.

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Comment 3 by jteh on 2012-06-14 22:33
This occurs because we use the child count of the list, but for inline and inline-block, this includes the whitespace nodes between the list items.

See also MozillaBug:764757 regarding inline-block.
Changes:
Milestone changed from None to near-term

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Comment 4 by jteh on 2012-06-15 09:51
Mick, should we try to spoof the _childcount attribute (which is currently generated by storage) or should we come up with a new attribute like itemcount or similar and have speech use that as first preference?

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Comment 5 by mdcurran on 2013-09-16 06:45
Changes:
Milestone changed from near-term to next

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Comment 6 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2013-09-16 06:50
In [051bc82]:

Merge branch 't2151' into next. Incubates #2151

Changes:
Added labels: incubating

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Comment 7 by leonarddr on 2013-09-16 08:07
I could only redistribute this problem in firefox, not in Chrome or IE. May be the what's new entry should mention a Mozilla specific fix?

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Comment 8 by mdcurran on 2013-09-16 21:48
True that the case was probably mostly seen in Firefox, but the code path certainly allowed for it in either.

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Comment 10 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2013-10-15 09:39
In [8f8563c]:

Merge branch 't2151'. Fixes #2151

Changes:
Removed labels: incubating
State: closed

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Comment 11 by mdcurran on 2013-10-15 09:39
Changes:
Milestone changed from next to 2013.3