New issue
Advanced search Search tips
Note: Color blocks (like or ) mean that a user may not be available. Tooltip shows the reason.

Issue 671221 link

Starred by 2 users

Issue metadata

Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Aug 2017
Cc:
Components:
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug
Team-Accessibility



Sign in to add a comment

Accessibility: JAWS not reading aria-describedby on role toolbar

Reported by james.sc...@atsid.com, Dec 5 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Tab to a button in an node with role toolbar and aria describedby
2. 
3. 

What is the expected behavior?
JAWS should read the toolbar description and then the button

What went wrong?
JAWS just reads the button

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 52.0.2743.116  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 23.0 r0

Not entirely sure if this is a Chrome issue or not, so I apologize.  I can only reproduce the issue with Chrome/JAWS.  Firefox/JAWS and Chrome/NVDA work as expected.  Will get a test case attached soon.
 
Attached simple test case with a toolbar and 2 buttons.  When I tab into the first button, with JAWS it just reads the button info.  With NVDA or with Firefox, it will read the toolbar label and description and then read the button info.

This may not be a Chrome issue, as the accessibility tree has the description attribute set for the toolbar.  But find it odd that JAWS with Firefox works, so can't rule out Chrome.  Anyhow, thanks for taking a look.
ChromeToolbarTest.html
298 bytes View Download

Comment 2 by ajha@chromium.org, Dec 6 2016

Components: UI>Accessibility
Labels: M-57
Labels: -Hotlist-Interop

Comment 4 by hdodda@chromium.org, Dec 19 2016

Cc: hdodda@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Tested on windows 10 using chrome latest canary M57 #57.0.2955.0 and observed that all the toolbar label and description is read  and then the button info is read.

@james.scharett-- Could you please check with latest google chrome versions and update us if you are still facing the issue.

Thanks!
Tested on Windows 7 using canary M57 #57.0.2956.0 and issue is not resolved. Its actually worse as in our app, I worked around this issue by adding aria-labelledby  tags to the control to announce the toolbar and that no longer works in chrome canary.  It now just announces the control and ignores all the aria-labeling.  I am testing with JAWS 16/17.  It seems to work with NVDA, so leaning on this being a JAWS issue, but still interesting that it works with Firefox and JAWS.
Project Member

Comment 6 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Dec 27 2016

Labels: -Needs-Feedback Needs-Review
Owner: hdodda@chromium.org
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "hdodda@chromium.org" for another review and adding "Needs-Review" label for tracking.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

Comment 7 by hdodda@chromium.org, Dec 28 2016

Owner: ----
@Requesting accessibility team to look into this , as per comment #5.

Thanks!

Comment 8 by hdodda@chromium.org, Dec 28 2016

Labels: -Needs-Review

Comment 9 by hdodda@chromium.org, Jan 18 2017

Labels: TE-NeedsTriageHelp
Tested on windows 10 using chrome latest canary M57 #57.0.2984.0 and observed that all the toolbar label and description is read  and then the button info is read.

Tested on Jaws 17.




Labels: NewComponent-Accessibility-Compatibility
Labels: NewComponent-Accessibility
Components: UI>Accessibility>Compatibility
Components: -UI>Accessibility
Labels: -newcomponent-accessibility-compatibility -newcomponent-accessibility
Labels: triage-aaron
Labels: -triage-aaron
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
This only seems to be an issue when the toolbar is the first item in the page. See additional attached file. NVDA reads the description in either case.

So this is a JAWS issue, and a bit of an edge case.
describedby.html
349 bytes View Download

Sign in to add a comment