Version: 56.0.2924.87

Adding a bit more context from testing on Chrome OS. When using ChromeVox to navigate through these, you simply can't get to the X close buttons using ChromeVox or just the keyboard. These X buttons are only available on mouse hover. If we don't want to go as far as to make each of these X buttons accessible with the keyboard, we need to at the very least put the option to remove the tile from the NTP in the context menu. 

Marking this Available pending the new NTP.

Any updates on timing regarding the new NTP? 

The X buttons to remove tiles are now keyboard-focusable (M64 or later), both on the local and the remote NTP, so I believe that part is fixed.

I don't think the iframe has a proper title yet, but that should be easy to fix. Any guidance on what the string should be? "Most visited"?

+srahim, +maxwalker

re: c#9 - label for a tile(that's what 'iframe' refers to, correct?)
- how about "{page title}, button"?
- 'button' because it looks and works like a button
- '{page title}' is used for tooltip as well.
- Although a challenge with "{page title}' is when its url is used as title, url seems the next alternative to identify a page when a title was not specified. 

Sorry, no, the "iframe" is the whole tiles section - what's announced as "Frame Zero" according to the original report.

The individual tiles do have the title in an "aria-label" property, so I'd hope they are being announced as something sensible. They are links rather than buttons, which I think makes sense, since they do essentially behave like a link.

+ lpalmaro@, leberly@, srahim@, Please advise here more regarding labeling a group element (I'm new to that area). 

Thanks for clarifying treib@. 

re: whole titles section
- How about "Most visited sites, 8 links" for the grouping(i.e. iframe)?

re: title
- 'link' sounds reasonable to me as well
- adding "x of y" at the end seems useful as well e.g. 'Twitter, link, 1 of 8'

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/7bd69c3b82d7faa7060703854ee2930a97d20175

commit 7bd69c3b82d7faa7060703854ee2930a97d20175
Author: Marc Treib <treib@chromium.org>
Date: Mon Nov 27 15:53:12 2017

Local NTP: Set a title on the most visited iframe

Bug: 777167,  699688 
Cq-Include-Trybots: master.tryserver.chromium.linux:closure_compilation
Change-Id: I6688363fa9c1d996f3d0d6bb1f27fc4720f803df
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/789846
Reviewed-by: Friedrich Horschig <fhorschig@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Marc Treib <treib@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#519309}
[modify] https://crrev.com/7bd69c3b82d7faa7060703854ee2930a97d20175/chrome/browser/resources/local_ntp/local_ntp.js
[modify] https://crrev.com/7bd69c3b82d7faa7060703854ee2930a97d20175/chrome/browser/search/local_ntp_source.cc

The above CL sets a title of "Most visited" for the iframe. The counts would be a nice addition, but they might be hard to translate (and anyway will be more work).

I think the worst things here have been addressed: The confusing "frame zero" announcement is gone, and the "x" buttons on the tiles are now tabbable via the keyboard (which I hope also makes them accessible via VoiceOver).
Reducing prio for the remaining polish (count and "i of n" announcement).

This bug is related to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=696272

This bug is left open for the remaining polish (count and "i of n" announcement).

696272 is for being able to remove tiles using the keyboard

Reducing prio since only some polish remains.

Fixed in latest Canary