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Issue metadata

Status:	Duplicate
Merged:	issue 689195
Owner:	█ nek...@chromium.org Last visit > 30 days ago
Closed:	Dec 2017
Cc:	lpalmaro@chromium.org █ kkaja@google.com
Components:	UI>Accessibility>Compatibility
EstimatedDays:	----
NextAction:	2016-12-19
OS:	Windows
Pri:	2
Type:	Bug

Team-Accessibility

Backspace to delete text is silent in Gmail compose

Project Member Reported by chaok@google.com, Dec 19 2016

Issue description

Chrome Version: 57.0.2953.0 
OS: Win10
Screen Reader: NVDA 2016.4

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Using above, compose new Gmail message
(2) In message body, type "this is a test"
(3) Backspace to delete text

What is the expected result? <character> deleted to be uttered

What happens instead? Silence

Comment 1 by chaok@google.com, Dec 19 2016

Cc: kkaja@google.com

Comment 2 by nek...@chromium.org, Mar 18 2017

I tested with the following HTML snippets:
1. <input>
2. <div contenteditable></div>
3. <textarea></textarea>
4. <div aria-label="Message body" contenteditable></div>
5. <div role="textbox" aria-label="Message body" contenteditable></div>
And found no issues when backspacing with NvDA. I think Gmail uses something similar to the last snippet, so I don't know why it behaves differently.
I'll keep working on this.