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After: The green rect follows web focus. Before: TalkBack tries to read the TV apps as text documents. Background: Within <xxx role=application>...</xxx>, screen readers should not consume DPAD (arrow key) events. Web apps or widgets with role=application have, per the WAI-ARIA spec's contract, their own JavaScript logic for moving focus [1]. [1] w3c/aria#1049, where we discussed this. Problem: TalkBack does not handle role=application so such web apps lose their 4-way (up/down/left/right) navigation. TalkBack only moves forward/backward which breaks authors' pre-defined TV UX. Solution: Whenever accessibility focus (the green rect) goes to some web content with <body role=application> or anywhere within a role=application widget, we don't consume the DPAD events; we let them through. Testing done: Open a simple TV web app that has <body role=application>. Notice: Once the web view gets accessibilty focus, TalkBack won't eat (consume) DPAD key events and the the key events reach the web page's key handler in JavaScript.
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