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Jaws shows 14 frames when viewing help. It is not clear which frames contain readable contents and which are used purely for layout. The names of the frames are sometimes criptic like "NavFrame".
I identified the following problems with frames: 1. Frame element is missing a title attribute, and only provides non translatable name attribute. 2. Many frames that are needed are not displayed in a list of frames because they do not have unique name attributes. For example there is only one tool bar frame since all views (toc, search, bookmarks, links, contents) have a toolbar with the same name "ToolbarFrame". 3. Help contains 6 hidden frames needed by implementation , There is 1 "temp" frame, and 5 "liveHelpFrame" frames. Only one "liveHelpFrame" is needed. 4. Out of the 6 hidden frames only one ("temp") frame is listed in JAWS. It is desired that none of these frames is listed. The "liveHelpFrame" frames are not included included due to a style="visibility:hidden" attribute. The "temp" frame is shown in the list because its hidden style is applied by style that is defined in a class and class="hidden" attribute is applied. 5. Frames that only contain nested frames and nothing else, are shown in the list of frames. Ideally they should not be listed, and minimally a title should indicate that the frame contains other frames only. The first two items are required to meet accessibility guidelines. This bug needs to be fixed for 2.1.1. Please approve.
I have forgot to mention that adding titles to the frames will require new strings in the properties. To have the titles show in other languages, the properties file will need to be re-translated for 2.1.1.
+1 The fixes are important and very low risk, they should be put in 2.1.1
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Fixed in for both 2.1 and 2.1.1.
*** Bug 37423 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 53190 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
