Branch: refs/heads/main
Home: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit
Commit: d6345c1b144b1d71c17459dcaf209d6a33135922
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/d6345c1b144b1d71c17459dcaf209d6a33135922
Author: Tyler Wilcock <[email protected]>
Date: 2026-06-14 (Sun, 14 Jun 2026)
Changed paths:
A LayoutTests/accessibility/text-stitching-line-break-expected.txt
A LayoutTests/accessibility/text-stitching-line-break.html
M LayoutTests/platform/glib/TestExpectations
M Source/WebCore/accessibility/AXStitchUtilities.cpp
Log Message:
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AX: WebKit should not stitch text across br-elements
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316802
rdar://179250716
Reviewed by Dominic Mazzoni.
Accessibility text-stitching walks a block flow's inline leaf boxes and
groups adjacent text into a single stitched object. <br> line-break boxes
were never handled, so text on both sides of any number of consecutive
<br>s was stitched together. <br>s typically denote a meaningful separation,
so they should break the stitch instead.
In stitchActionFor(), break and skip when encountering a <br>.
* LayoutTests/accessibility/text-stitching-adjacent-br-elements-expected.txt:
Added.
* LayoutTests/accessibility/text-stitching-adjacent-br-elements.html: Added.
* LayoutTests/platform/glib/TestExpectations: Skip new test.
* Source/WebCore/accessibility/AXStitchUtilities.cpp:
(WebCore::stitchActionFor):
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