fix(cdk/a11y): not detecting fake mousedown on firefox

src/cdk/a11y/fake-event-detection.ts

@@ -10,10 +10,12 @@
 export function isFakeMousedownFromScreenReader(event: MouseEvent): boolean {
   // Some screen readers will dispatch a fake `mousedown` event when pressing enter or space on
   // a clickable element. We can distinguish these events when both `offsetX` and `offsetY` are
-  // zero. Note that there's an edge case where the user could click the 0x0 spot of the screen
-  // themselves, but that is unlikely to contain interaction elements. Historically we used to
-  // check `event.buttons === 0`, however that no longer works on recent versions of NVDA.
-  return event.offsetX === 0 && event.offsetY === 0;
+  // zero or `event.buttons` is zero, depending on the browser:
+  // - `event.buttons` works on Firefox, but fails on Chrome.
+  // - `offsetX` and `offsetY` work on Chrome, but fail on Firefox.
+  // Note that there's an edge case where the user could click the 0x0 spot of the
+  // screen themselves, but that is unlikely to contain interactive elements.
+  return event.buttons === 0 || (event.offsetX === 0 && event.offsetY === 0);
 }
 
 /** Gets whether an event could be a faked `touchstart` event dispatched by a screen reader. */

src/cdk/a11y/focus-monitor/focus-monitor.spec.ts

@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ describe('FocusMonitor', () => {
     expect(changeHandler).toHaveBeenCalledWith('program');
   }));
 
-  it('should detect fake mousedown from a screen reader', fakeAsync(() => {
+  it('should detect fake mousedown from a screen reader on Chrome', fakeAsync(() => {
     // Simulate focus via a fake mousedown from a screen reader.
     dispatchMouseEvent(buttonElement, 'mousedown');
     const event = createMouseEvent('mousedown');
@@ -167,6 +167,26 @@ describe('FocusMonitor', () => {
     expect(changeHandler).toHaveBeenCalledWith('keyboard');
   }));
 
+  it('should detect fake mousedown from a screen reader on Firefox', fakeAsync(() => {
+    // Simulate focus via a fake mousedown from a screen reader.
+    dispatchMouseEvent(buttonElement, 'mousedown');
+    const event = createMouseEvent('mousedown');
+    Object.defineProperties(event, {buttons: {get: () => 0}});
+    dispatchEvent(buttonElement, event);
+
+    buttonElement.focus();
+    fixture.detectChanges();
+    flush();
+
+    expect(buttonElement.classList.length)
+      .withContext('button should have exactly 2 focus classes').toBe(2);
+    expect(buttonElement.classList.contains('cdk-focused'))
+      .withContext('button should have cdk-focused class').toBe(true);
+    expect(buttonElement.classList.contains('cdk-keyboard-focused'))
+      .withContext('button should have cdk-keyboard-focused class').toBe(true);
+    expect(changeHandler).toHaveBeenCalledWith('keyboard');
+  }));
+
   it('focusVia keyboard should simulate keyboard focus', fakeAsync(() => {
     focusMonitor.focusVia(buttonElement, 'keyboard');
     flush();

src/cdk/a11y/input-modality/input-modality-detector.spec.ts

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ describe('InputModalityDetector', () => {
     expect(emitted).toEqual(['keyboard', 'mouse', 'touch', 'keyboard']);
   });
 
-  it('should detect fake screen reader mouse events as keyboard input modality', () => {
+  it('should detect fake screen reader mouse events as keyboard input modality on Chrome', () => {
     setupTest();
 
     // Create a fake screen-reader mouse event.
@@ -144,6 +144,17 @@ describe('InputModalityDetector', () => {
     expect(detector.mostRecentModality).toBe('keyboard');
   });
 
+  it('should detect fake screen reader mouse events as keyboard input modality on Firefox', () => {
+    setupTest();
+
+    // Create a fake screen-reader mouse event.
+    const event = createMouseEvent('mousedown');
+    Object.defineProperties(event, {buttons: {get: () => 0}});
+    dispatchEvent(document, event);
+
+    expect(detector.mostRecentModality).toBe('keyboard');
+  });
+
   it('should detect fake screen reader touch events as keyboard input modality', () => {
     setupTest();