[tor-bugs] #27503 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Disabling accessibility on Windows breaks screen readers

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#27503: Disabling accessibility on Windows breaks screen readers
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:  gk
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-8.0-issues, tbb-regression,      |  Actual Points:
  GeorgKoppen201902, TorBrowserTeam201902        |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:
 Reviewer:  boklm                                |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by chpross):

 Hi,
 my name is Christopher and I am blind. I want to use the torbrowser, I had
 used it on 2016 but now I had this accessibility problems.
 The Tor windows and all dialogs of the firefox browser are readable and
 for me no problem.
 But the website-area is not accessible, with the newest torbrowser alpha
 on a windows 10 computer with NVDA 2018.4.1.
 This means that if I tab to the area, where the website is shown and
 normaly the website is read out from NVDA, the Screenreader says now
 "unknown", what means that this is not readable or accessible for the
 screenreader.
 Do you work on the accessibility problems, can I help you with testing?
 I hope you could fix the  accessibility problems.

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